Fast breaking at Priok port

Fast breaking at Priok port

JAKARTA (JP): Chief of Staff of Jakarta Military District Command Brig. Gen. Sutiyoso attended a breaking of the fast gathering with stevedores of Tanjung Priok seaport, North Jakarta, on Thursday evening.

The ceremony was also attended by A. Harbani, president of the state-owned port company PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II, Soenardjo, the Tanjung Priok port administrator and Sutiyoso's wife.

At the ceremony, 60 year-old stevedores, who can no longer work at the port, were given retirement endowments amounting to Rp 600,000 (US$272.7).

Out of the Rp 600,000 that each received, Rp 150,000 was incurred from the stevedores' cooperative, Rp 350,000 from management funds and the remaining Rp 100,000 from the Tanjung Priok port.

Orphans at the port also get gifts of clothes from the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian National Youth Committee. (hhr)