Unauthorized and Ongoing

February 26, 2002

The villa owned by Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso in Puncak was built in violation of the regulations and has no building permit of any sort. But it's only one of thousands of similar villas.

According to Adrian Arya Kusumah, the head of Bogor's housing, planning and urban development service, approximately 40 percent of the 3,000-odd villas that have been built in Puncak lack building permits, while many others possess fake permits. In fact, as

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