Contractors blamed for pollution

Contractors blamed for pollution

JAKARTA (JP): Contractors building Bank Indonesia's building on Jl. MH Thamrin have spoiled the waterway on Jl. Budi Kemuliaan, Central Jakarta, Gambir district head Tjuk Subianto said yesterday.

Tjuk said sanitation workers had collected 50 bags of sand and soil spilled from cement mixer trucks.

A sanitation worker said he and other workers removed 4,000 cubic meters of mud, mostly aggregate, from the 600-meter canal.

The contractors are the state-owned Waskita Karya and Wijaya Karya.

Tjuk said the canal had to be clean or the canal would flood when heavy rains come.

He said the city administration had sent three warning letters to the contractors and got no response.

"Now we are cleaning Jl. Budi Kemuliaan and the canal in the hope that the contractors would realize their wrong doing," Tjuk was quoted by Antara as saying. (sur)