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After evaluating and issuing restrictions on minimarkets across the capital, the Jakarta administration has now set 7-Eleven convenience stores in its sights.

Following the issuance of a gubernatorial instruction specifically targeting 7-Elevens, Adi Ariantara, the head of the city’s economic bureau of the city administration, said the government would review the stores based on both the new instruction and a 2006 gubernatorial regulation on restaurants.

Since the franchise operates not only as a convenience store but also serves prepared food, both regulations apply.

“One of the contents of the decree is to manage, evaluate and take actions on all Sevels,” Adi said, referring to the convenience store by its nickname here.

Adi’s agency and the Jakarta Tourism and Culture Agency, which oversees restaurants in the capital, inspected the 7-Elevens’ paperwork on Friday, he said.

“We held an evaluation meeting on Sevel stores. We found that out of 57 in Jakarta, only 15 had proper licenses,” he said.

Adi said that the city had prepared three options for the stores in violation of city regulations: written citations, temporary and permanent foreclosures and relocations.

Both agencies, he said, would conduct on-site inspections on the city’s 7-Elevens before the end of this month. Next month, the city will start to enforce its regulations.

“From there we will be able to determine which stores will be given their licenses and which ones we will be denied, for example those in residential and not business areas,” he said.

“We will also know whether the stores have adequate facilities or if they are a problem for the surrounding community.”

It was not clear why 7-Eleven was the only convenience store chain targeted by the new gubernatorial instruction.

Modern Putra Indonesia, which operates 7-Elevens in the country, did not respond to requests for comment.

Adi said the city was not planning to restrict the number of 7-Elevens in the city like it had done for other minimarkets.

A 2006 gubernatorial instruction had put a hold on new permits for minimarkets, but it was revoked in January.

“We have a task of driving the economic activities in the city but trying to keep them in line with existing regulations,” Adi said.

He pointed out that as an international chain, 7-Elevens had contributed to the city’s investment climate.

“We are trying to provide comforts for foreign investors, too,” Adi said.

Adi said his office would review 7-Elevens based on a 2002 regional regulation that stipulated that modern markets up to 200 square meters in size should be located at least 500 meters from traditional markets. If they are between 200 and 1,000 square meters, they should be at least a kilometer away from such markets.

Supermarkets and hypermarts must be at least two and a half kilometers from any traditional market.

According to data from the regional administration in 2011, Jakarta was home to 1,868 minimarkets. Of those, 1,443 of them did not have all the required permits, and some had none at all.