Cleaning services to be disciplined

Cleaning services to be disciplined

JAKARTA (JP): West Jakarta Mayor Sutardjianto has threatened
to take stern measures against private-owned cleaning service
companies which are found guilty of violating project contracts.

Sutardjianto said that the mayoralty has entrusted the work
along mayoralty streets to four cleaning service companies.

Contracts for the ten-month works, involving a city budget of
about Rp 2.7 billion (US$1.23 million), have been signed by
representatives of the companies and the mayoralty office, he
said.

In its development, however, not all the four companies work
in line with the contracts, he said, adding that one of them
employs only a limited number of workers to sweep the streets,
thereby leaving many streets dirty and devoid of sanitation
personnel.

"The four companies can only collect a total of 1,300 cubic-
meters of garbage per day, far below the volume of 5,000 cubic
meters that piles up in the mayoralty every day," Sutardjianto
said to Antara on Tuesday.

Without disclosing when the contracts of the four firms would
expire, Sutardjianto said that his mayoralty plans to summon
officers of the mayoralty's sanitation office and owners of the
four cleaning service companies to discuss their works.

The meeting with them will also be used to consider the
possibility of reviewing the ability, weakness and competency in
maintaining cleanliness in the area, he said.

The mayor also urged officers of district and sub-district
offices as well as local citizens to take part in maintaining
cleanliness in their neighborhoods.

Sutardjianto also said that the city administration has
allocated Rp 324 million to rehabilitate four state-owned
elementary school buildings in Krukut, Tambora district.

He said that the city administration approved only those
funds, even though the West Java mayoralty asked for more in
order to renovate other school buildings. (yns)