City builds three-star hotel

City builds three-star hotel

JAKARTA (JP): Buoyed by optimism over increased demands for
three-star hotels in the city, PD Wisata Niaga Jaya, a city-owned
company, will build a 16-story hotel in the Kabel area, Cempaka
Putih district, Central Jakarta.

Gito Bantas, the company's president, said in the ground-
breaking ceremony late last week that the state-owned Bank DKI
and a number of private banks had agreed to jointly finance the
construction of the three-star Hotel Cempaka Mayor.

The construction costs of the hotel, which is scheduled to be
completed in 1996, is estimated to reach Rp 51.5 billion (US$24.5
million).

Wisata Niaga Jaya currently owns and manages three hotels,
Motel Cempaka I in the Cempaka Putih district, Motel Cempaka II
in Pulo Mas district, East Jakarta, and Jaya Cottage in Semper
district, North Jakarta.

Deputy Governor for Economic and Development Tubagus M. Rais
said in his opening remark that the management of Wisata Niaga
Jaya should also pay attention to human resources development in
order to compete with private-owned hotels.

Without directly referring to the poor service at the
company's current hotels, Rais said that it is high time the
company management improved the performance of their employees.

The city-owned company, Bantas said, chose to build a three-
star hotel because the city still needs some 2,500 rooms in
that particular price range.

Hotel Cempaka Mayor will have one president suite, 14 suites
and 205 superior rooms.

As part of a major business expansion, Bantas said that the
company will build another three-star hotel in Rawasari
subdistrict, Cempaka Putih district in November.(09)