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Parking Area Whose Responsibility?

Incidentally this afternoon appointment with someone at the Mall of Indonesia (MOI), Kelapa Gading, thought also to buy a camera battery in there. But no one sells batteries in there. The friendly clerk explained that the camera batteries can be bought at the service center not far from the location and provide tiny scrap of paper containing the address of their center services.

Service center address is not far away, at Raya Boulevard Barat streets in ruko complex, people used calls like that. Ruko or shophouses (home-store) despite the fact that the building was just a store, because the owner very rarely live in, if any who lives there is usually only the shopkeepers. This occurred reputedly due to make a shophouses license is easier than permission to make a shop. If it's true, of course weird rules like that huh?

As the condition of a row of shophouses mostly along the Boulevard Kelapa Gading, if we look around the parking area shophouses there nearly all typical of the same, namely the condition of the street parking is almost the average damage. Though the parking fee in the first hour Rp3,000.00 and Rp1,500.00 for each additional hour, we still too find the condition of damaged roads of parking areas not being repaired. Why so?

Several years ago, Indonesian Institute of Architects have been invited to attend a meeting of interested parties in there, such as local government (local government) and local developers to find common ground between them about the parking conditions in Kelapa Gading. I happened to be sent from the Chairman of IAI that time to attend the meeting. Meeting one of which discusses the problem of parking there, in which each interested party have different views about who is actually bearing the burden of responsibility for repairs in the parking lot.

Departure from there back to this question could disturb the mind, "Is to this day still occur between the developers throwing responsibility with local governments?" Where developers are not willing to repair roads on the grounds, because the regional government has withdrawn charges to park there, so it is a government obligation to repair a damaged parking area, while local governments do not feel the need to repair that road because that road has not handed over to local government. If so, who is harmed due to the different views? Of course, shop owners and visitors shop, because the condition of the parking lot of the damaged area becomes uncomfortable to drive there. Weird if repair parking areas should become the responsibility of shop owners?

Hopefully the bad roads conditions in the existing parking area is not because they still lead to the same issues. But it could be something like this is also happening in other places and it seems the community or the public right to sue the relevant parties if this is really happening, with consumer protection laws of course.

And even more weird, in Jakarta in particular, is everywhere why pay for parking!

| February 10, 2010 | samidirijono | architect |
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