Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang
The Tangerang municipal administration has prepared detailed engineering designs for road construction and repairs in the newly approved South Tangerang city, Tangerang regent Ismet Iskandar said over the weekend.
The regent asked the residents to help the projects progress smoothly because the administration would also widen several roads connecting seven districts in the new municipality.
The seven districts are Ciputat, East Ciputat, Pamulang, Pondok Aren, Serpong, North Serpong and Setu.
"Therefore, we ask the residents to not increase the price of the land for the road construction and road widening projects," Ismet said Saturday.
The regent said he had heard the price of land in Ciputat had increased soon after the administration decided the area would be the administrative center for South Tangerang.
"Before we announced Ciputat as the administrative center for South Tangerang, the land only cost between Rp 700,000 (US$64) and Rp 900,000 per square meter but now the price has increased to 2 million," he said.
Ismet promised that road repairs in South Tangerang would continue until 2009 because this is only part of the preparations needed to establish the city.
Data at the regency's Public Work Agency showed that the total length of damaged roads in South Tangerang was at least 1,646 kilometers, and includes 258 bridges.
However, the administration will only repair several main roads in South Tangerang in the near future.
Ciputat district administrative secretary Aplahunnajat said the district administration had proposed that the municipality repair all damaged roads this year.
"There are at least 73 roads in South Tangerang that need repairs and the administration has only allocated Rp 18 billion from this year's budget to repair them," he said.
Commenting on the recruitment of new civil servants to fill the new administration, Tangerang municipal assistant Mas Iman Kusnadar said it had yet to become a priority because more than 4,000 existing civil servants would be transferred to the new administrative office.
He said there were two kinds of services -- civil service and public service -- that the new municipal administration would have to deliver in the near future following the establishment of the city.
"Civil service is for ID cards (KTP), family cards (KK) and yellow cards for job seekers," he said, adding that public service deals with parking and environmental sanitation.
He said the Tangerang municipality was currently preparing a design competition for South Tangerang's logo.
"We have 45 days to find and determine the administrative logo; it must suit the city's culture and characteristics which have been developed into residential areas, education, trade, business and tourist areas," he said.
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