10 projects to start at Bekasi anniversary

10 projects to start at Bekasi anniversary

BEKASI, West Java (JP): Bekasi Regent Moch. Djamhari will
celebrate the regency's 46th anniversary tomorrow by inaugurating
10 projects worth Rp 19 billion (US$8.5 million).

The projects include various buildings for social and
educational purposes such as schools, markets, a waste processing
installation, bridge and local broadcasting.

"The ceremony will take place at one of the project sites, the
nurse's dormitory of the administration-owned hospital in town,"
the regency's public relations head, Atang Sudjana, said
yesterday. He said that 23 mini markets in least-developed
villages will also be officially opened.

He added that all of the projects were financed by the
administration, an Asian Development Bank loan and donations from
the private sector.

The administration plans to offer 75 tenders worth Rp 30
billion during the 1996/1997 fiscal year.

All the tenders are in process, but many local contractors
were not invited to bid.

"Sixty contractors which are members of the Bekasi chapter of
the Indonesian Builders Association were invited in the first
bidding while 48 others were invited in the second bidding,"
deputy chairman of the association's local office, Yadhi Biki,
told The Jakarta Post yesterday.

Yadhi admitted that some of the association's members had bad
reputations from past projects. However, he said, such bad
attitudes must have resulted from poor guidance and supervision
from the local administration. (kod)