Bulungan Complex for sports, arts

JAKARTA: Head of the City Sports and Youth Agency, Yudhi Suyoto, asserted over the weekend that the Bulungan Youth Sports Complex in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, will not be open to outside business activities.

"The complex will only provide facilities for sports and arts. There won't be any business activities here," he said, responding to the city administration's plan to renovate the complex this week.

Yudhi refuted rumors that the administration has cooperated with Klub Sejuta Foundation to manage the complex after the renovations.

The administration has planned to self-finance the complex's operational costs by opening a minimarket, a beauty parlor and a boutique in the complex. It has become one of the most popular places to hang-out for high school students.

Yudhi said that the Sejuta Foundation -- which has used part of the complex for youth activities -- would need to renew their contract in March 2004 instead of the original 2006.

"And we won't lease rooms for business," he added. -- JP