City to have emergency center

City to have emergency center

JAKARTA: Governor Sutiyoso has proposed the establishment of
an emergency center to provide help for people with various
problems at the City Revenue Agency building.

"I'm very impressed with the idea of an emergency center.
However, it is still just a plan," he said on Monday.

Sutiyoso was inspired by South Korea, after his visit to the
host country of the 2002 World Cup with neighbor Japan, which has
emergency centers in its capital Seoul. People can call the
center with one contact number to get help.

The city administration has worked with the Agency for the
Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) to create a
crisis center. The center was expected to map Jakarta in detail
to enable the administration to make risk analyses to provide an
early warning system in case of natural disasters.

The center was launched three years ago with a total budget of
Rp 2 billion (US$232,560) for the first phase of the project. --
JP