Angkasa Pura faulted over tender
Angkasa Pura faulted over tender
TANGERANG (JP): Head of the Tangerang chapter of the
Indonesian Builders Association (Gapensi) Moch. Syafei protested
on Monday discrimination and procedural violations by the
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport operator, PT Angkasa Pura
II, in appointing firms that provide supplies of equipment for
itself and the airport.
"We have repeatedly sent letters of protest to the president
director of PT Angkasa Pura II over the alleged procedural
violations and discrimination by senior officials of the airport
and its parent company PT Angkasa Pura II in appointing the
winners of tendered projects worth less than Rp 50 million each.
But all were to no avail," Syafei told reporters.
He accused PT Angkasa Pura II of referring its policies to the
Airport Authority regulation.
"PT Angkasa Pura II should indeed refer its policies to
Presidential Decree No. 16, Government Regulation No. 12 and Law
No. 22/1999 on Regional Autonomy. It means that the Tangerang
administration will have greater management authority at the
airport," he said, while pointing out that 60 percent of the
airport complex is located within the Tangerang mayoralty.
"The tendered projects have been dominated by Jakarta
businessmen, who allegedly have close relationships with senior
officials of the airport and its parent company," he added.
A director of project bidder CV Anugrah Hendra Jaya, Sutara,
shared Syafei's statement, saying that tendered projects for the
provision of electric equipment, stationery and computer spare
parts, had been dominated by a group of certain firms.
"Should there be any winning bidder outside the group, it
would have problems running the project," he said, citing that
his company once won a tender to provide 1,000 Phillips light
bulbs to the airport.
"But, we were required to obtain a certificate of assurance
from the Holland-based electrics company," he said, suggesting
that it was impossible for a small company like his to secure
such a certificate from a large foreign company.
The head of the equipment supply section of PT Angkasa Pura
II, Bambang Sulistio, however, dismissed the allegation that the
winners of the tendered projects were close associates of the
company's senior officials. (41/imn)