City Hall renovation

City Hall renovation

JAKARTA (JP): The renovation of city hall is almost complete and will be finished before June 22, the city's 468th birthday, an official said yesterday.

Project supervisor Benny Suratna said that the main hall of the building would be ready in time for the celebrations surrounding the city's anniversary.

He said that 150 workers, including wood carvers from Jepara, Blora and Klaten in Central Java, were currently busy on the project, which is being financed out of a budget allocated over the past two years.

Benny said the building's basic architecture was not being changed in the renovation.

"We are not building additional rooms or eliminating parts of the building or rooms of the main hall," Benny said, as quoted by Antara.

Even the color of the building, he added, would be the same as the original one.

He said that for interior decoration the renovators would use various items, such as lamps, tables and chairs from various cities throughout Java.

The renovation of the whole building is expected to be completed before Indonesia's Independence day on Aug. 17, he added. (yns)