Poor coordination blamed for PLN cable dispute<\/p>\n
TANGERANG (JP): A member of the National Commission on Human
\nRights said the placement of high voltage cables over the Ciledug
\nIndah housing complex was due to a lack of coordination.<\/p>\n
Area residents recently raised an outcry over the presence of
\nthe cables they said were causing health problems.<\/p>\n
"I think the problem arose due to a lack of coordination
\nbetween the Tangerang administration and the West Java provincial
\nadministration and the state-electricity company (PLN)," Brig.
\nGen. (Ret) Roekmini Koesoemo Astoeti said after attending a
\nclosed meeting with Tangerang Deputy Regent H.M. Nuhriana Husnadi
\non Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Roekmini said that the Tangerang administration did not
\nconsult the West Java provincial administration when it issued a
\npermit for the developer of the Ciledug Indah Housing estate, PT
\nDuta Megah Perdana, in 1987.<\/p>\n
Roekmini said the meeting revealed that the Tangerang
\nadministration did not know that the West Java administration had
\nearlier issued another land use permit for PLN to put up the
\ntowers for the high voltage cable network in the Ciledug area.<\/p>\n
The former Regent of Tangerang, Tadjus Sobirin, issued a
\npermit for PT Duta Megah Perdana, a developer, to build a housing
\nestate on a 20-hectare plot of land in Tangerang regency on Feb.
\n6, 1987.<\/p>\n
Roekmini also said that the Tangerang administration has
\nagreed to relocate the 120 residents of the Ciledug Indah housing
\nestate, but the administration's plan is being hampered by
\nfinancial problems and the scarcity of land.<\/p>\n
Djoko Sugianto, another member of the commission, has asked
\nPLN to temporarily turn off the electrical current flowing
\nthrough the cables suspended over the housing estate.<\/p>\n
Djoko's plea was rejected by the chief of PLN's office in
\nTangerang, Ali Herman, who said it is impossible to turn off the
\ncurrent because the towers are now being used by PLN to
\ndistribute electricity to other people living in the Ciledug
\narea.<\/p>\n
Ali said the height of the transmission towers has been raised
\nfrom the original nine meters to 18 meters in an effort to
\nresolve the matter.<\/p>\n
In a hearing with Commission VI of the House of
\nRepresentatives on Nov. 15, PLN president Zuhal said the
\ninstallation of the high voltage cable network and towers in the
\nCiledug Indah housing complex could not jeopardize the health of
\nthe people living there.<\/p>\n
One hundred and twenty residents of the Ciledug Indah housing
\nestate in Tangerang went to the headquarters of the National
\nCommission on Human Rights to complain about the bad effects of
\nthe high voltage cables suspended over their housing complex.<\/p>\n
The residents said that they have physically suffered since
\nPLN activated the 500,000-volt electric current flowing through
\ncables suspended over their housing complex on Nov. 25<\/p>\n
The residents complained of nausea, irregular heartbeats and
\nskin irritations.<\/p>\n
During an inspection of the site last Thursday, Roekmini and
\nDjoko witnessed that a current tester lighted up when one of the
\nCiledug Indah residents touched it to a television antenna.
\n(13\/mas)<\/p>",
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