Administration to renovate school buildings

JAKARTA (JP): The City Administration will renovate five state school buildings and one subdistrict office building, all of which are owned by the city.

The buildings to be renovated are junior high school SMP Negeri 138 on Jl. Pahlawan Komaruddin in Pulo Gebang, East Jakarta, SMP Negeri 43 on Jl. Kapten Tandean in Mampang Prapatan, South Jakarta; and senior high school SMA Negeri 78 on Jl. Bhakti in Kemanggisan, West Jakarta, SMA Negeri 21 on Jl. Villa in Tanah Mas, East Jakarta and SMA Negeri 15 on Jl. RE Martadinata in Ancol, North Jakarta. The subdistrict office to be renovated is located in Sukapura on Jl. Tipar in Cakung, North Jakarta.

The plan to renovate the is based on gubernatorial decree No. 88/1995, dated Feb. 1, 1995.

The decree states that the six buildings will be completely demolished due to their poor condition. New buildings for the same purposes will be constructed on the same sites.

The decree also states that the head of the City Facility Office as well as the head of the City Restoration and Building Arrangement Office are responsible for the implementation of the renovation projects.

No information is available on the amount to be spent on the project.

Facilities

In a related development, Sri Umi Soetjipto, a councilor of the City Council's Commission E in charge of social welfare affairs, reported yesterday that the new buildings will be equipped with modern education facilities, ranging from laboratories to libraries.

She urged the City Administration to properly coordinate all related offices involved.

"Students constitute the country's most important assets for future development and we must pay much attention to their education process. Please work to prevent the renovation works from disturbing the students' concentration," she said.

Councilor Ratih Ratna Purnami from Commission D in charge of development affairs said that the new buildings could be set up in other sites if the current locations are no longer considered appropriate.

"But the city administration would have to choose suitable locations not on disputed land areas," she added.

She urged the city administration to not repeat what happened wtih the SMP Negeri 43 school building in Mampang Prapatan, whose land was claimed by a local resident, resulting in a long dispute.(32)