Hi,
We are a mixed couple and are having a bitter experience in a village here where we bought a land two years ago. We did process the IMB (building permit) including the signed agreement of the Kelian adat and Dinas+ the signature of the neighbors . Started the building of our dream and once the construction was half way, the kelian adat came up saying we have to stop building. The Masyarakat (citizens of that village) want us to pay a fee for the cost of the asphalt road because we didn t participate to it s construction 20 years ago...It s ending up in a little crew of people deciding that we should : 1/ paying a fee of 3000$ because we bought a land and we are not from that village, 2/ paying a fee of 2500$ because we use that road (Swadaya) , 3/having to sign an agreement so that we cannot rent our house or pay them if we do rent our house. And 4/if we build up more in our land, we will also pay an extra fee of 2500$. We are the first foreigners to buy a land there (Jawa is considered as a foreign country apparently). All this in the name of the ADAT ...for a law that a little team decided last month and effective, anytime before that. I forgot to mention that if our friends come, we would pay the Kelian adat 50.000 per person per night. And the last one: if we don t respect one of the points above, this `contract` is cancelled.
It doesn t make no sense, but the result is that they misuse the term adat to suck money out of us threatening us to block the road. Eventhough they decided this 6 months after we got the IMB, they say this is not preman (mafia) but ADAT.
Any suggestion other than a riot gun?
We are a mixed couple and are having a bitter experience in a village here where we bought a land two years ago. We did process the IMB (building permit) including the signed agreement of the Kelian adat and Dinas+ the signature of the neighbors . Started the building of our dream and once the construction was half way, the kelian adat came up saying we have to stop building. The Masyarakat (citizens of that village) want us to pay a fee for the cost of the asphalt road because we didn t participate to it s construction 20 years ago...It s ending up in a little crew of people deciding that we should : 1/ paying a fee of 3000$ because we bought a land and we are not from that village, 2/ paying a fee of 2500$ because we use that road (Swadaya) , 3/having to sign an agreement so that we cannot rent our house or pay them if we do rent our house. And 4/if we build up more in our land, we will also pay an extra fee of 2500$. We are the first foreigners to buy a land there (Jawa is considered as a foreign country apparently). All this in the name of the ADAT ...for a law that a little team decided last month and effective, anytime before that. I forgot to mention that if our friends come, we would pay the Kelian adat 50.000 per person per night. And the last one: if we don t respect one of the points above, this `contract` is cancelled.
It doesn t make no sense, but the result is that they misuse the term adat to suck money out of us threatening us to block the road. Eventhough they decided this 6 months after we got the IMB, they say this is not preman (mafia) but ADAT.
Any suggestion other than a riot gun?