New South Jakarta mayoralty office in poor condition

New South Jakarta mayoralty office in poor condition

JAKARTA (JP): The new office building of the South Jakarta
mayoralty has been partly out of order, despite having started
operations just last April.

South Jakarta Mayor Abdul Kahfi told reporters yesterday that
the broken facilities are due mainly to the poor quality of the
building materials used by the developer of the five-story
building.

The office building, constructed on a 5,000-square meter plot
of land by private developer PT Balekambang Mulya, took nine
years to build.

"PT Balekambang has to be responsible for the repair of the
broken facilities regardless of the developer having handed over
the buildings to the mayoralty or not," Kahfi said.

He said that many repairs have already been made, including
the floor tiles, the leaking ceilings and the poorly installed
lifts as well as the water networks in the rest rooms.

PT Balekambang Mulya refused to be responsible for repairing
the damaged buildings on the grounds that the company has handed
over the facilities to the mayoralty, while its maintenance
contract expired last June.

"I have handed over the building to the mayoralty so its
maintenance is no longer my responsibility," Suhaemi was quoted
by the Suara Karya daily as saying.

Suhaemi declined to elaborate on why his company took so long
to complete the project.

Tb Rais, deputy governor in charge of development, said on
Tuesday that the Central Jakarta mayor can ask the contractor to
be responsible for the repairs if their workmanship does not meet
the requirements stipulated in the working contract. (32)