Business centers near completion
JAKARTA: Two business centers in Muara Karang and Pluit, North Jakarta, which will cost an estimated Rp 26.35 billion (US$2.53 million) to build, will be finished in the first quarter of 2002.
"Construction on the 5,201-square-meter plot of land in Muara Karang is 80 percent complete, while the center on Jl. Pluit Sakti is 90 percent built and nearing completion," said the senior secretary manager of PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro), Budi Sulistiyo, as quoted by Antara on Monday.
Both centers are being built on land owned by PT Jakpro, a city-owned enterprise focusing in construction, in cooperation with the private sector.
The company is cooperating with PT Pondok Permata Indah Permai (PPIP) in building the center in Muara Karang, which will house a 44 shop/house complex valued at Rp 10.7 billion. The center will also feature a Rp 600 million tennis court.
PT Jakpro is also cooperating with PT Kencana Megah Dian Abadi to build the other center on a 7,313-square-meter lot in Pluit.
"The center will contain 61 shops/houses worth Rp 15.05 billion," said Budi.
PT PPIP and PT KMDA are obliged to submit Rp 14.95 billion and Rp 20.427 billion respectively to PT Jakpro in the 30-year Build- Operate-Transfer project. -- JP
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Paintings shown for Australian Day
JAKARTA: To commemorate the anniversary of Australia, which falls on Jan. 26, the Australian Alumni Association and the Australia Indonesia Institute are cooperating with Prime Global Link Pty. Ltd. to stage a painting exhibition.
The Friendship through Art exhibition will be officially opened on Jan. 28 and will continue until Feb. 3 at the lobby of the Gran Melia Hotel on Jl. HR Rasuna Said, South Jakarta.
The Australian Embassy Jakarta Counsellor for Cultural Affairs, Geoffrey Leach, said in a release Tuesday that the exhibition, which will display 70 paintings, was the second following the successful initial show at the World Trade Center on Jl. Jend. Sudirman, Central Jakarta, last year.
Among the painters are Sumadi S. (formerly Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico), Totong R. Oesman, Sugiapto Trisna of Indonesia and Michael J. Summers, Nelson Nurse and Todd J. Cutten of Australia. -- JP
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BOGOR: Two motorcyclists were killed and two others were seriously injured in a chain reaction accident involving three motorcycles and a truck on Thursday night.
An eyewitness said that the truck, which had engine trouble, was parked at the roadside when the Suzuki motorcycle hit it. He said the driver might not have seen the truck as it was quite dark.
Both people on the motorcycle were killed instantly.
Two other motorcycles traveling behind the Suzuki also hit the truck.
The three motorcycles were all being ridden at high speed, according to the eyewitness.--JP