Pantai Indah Kapuk


Pantai Indah Kapuk is a gated community, located in parts of Penjaringan, North Jakarta and Kapuk, West Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of most prestigious residential areas in Jakarta along with Menteng, Pondok Indah, and Puri Indah. Although most of PIK area are housing estates, there are businesses on the main roads such as Pantai Indah Utara, Pantai Indah Selatan, and Marina Indah. The Cordoba and Crown Golf shophouses on the Marina Indah Road are famous for restaurants and cafes.
PIK can be accessed from Jakarta Airport Toll Road, Jakarta Outer Ring Road West, as well as from the neighboring administrative districts of Pluit and Muara Karang.

List of important places

Angke Kapuk Nature Tourism Park orTaman Wisata Alam Angke Kapuk is a privately owned protected mangrove forest or park. The park has a land area of about 100 hectares. It is located at PIK, 3 kilometers from Muara Angke mangrove forest and wildlife sanctuary. The park opened in 2010 and its infrastructure is well maintained.The park is also developed as ecological resorts and bird watching facilities. There is a technique for planting mangroves called bronjong. Bronjong uses bamboo stems to encircle the plant to strengthen it and protect it from crabs. Birds which may be found the pecuk ular, kowak maling, kuntul putih and several others. Snakes, monitor lizards and monkeys can also be found. Admission to the mangrove forest costs Rp 25,000 for adults, Rp 10,000 for children and Rp 250,000 for foreign tourists. An additional Rp 1 (US$80

Controversy

The Pantai Indah Kapuk project in Jakarta, was criticized in interviews with various officials for its potentially negative environmental impact and incompatibility with existing regulations. According to a newspaper report,
thi 1,160-hectare complex has long sparked controversy as it was built in 1989 on an area formerly covered by mangrove forest and swamps. The construction of the project was approved by then minister of forestry Hasjrul Harahap and then governor Wiyogo Atmodarminto. Several NGOs are planning to file a class action suit against the developer for causing floods in the nearby Penjaringan area. They accused the developer of violating the city’s land-use plan for building the complex on a protected green belt area. According to the city’s master land-use plan for 1985 and 2005, the location was still designated a green belt area. But it was changed into a residential area in 1995. (Developer challenges public 2002.