PAM Jaya told to improve services

PAM Jaya told to improve services

JAKARTA (JP): Vice Governor of Economy and Development Affairs Tb. Rais urged city-owned water company PAM Jaya yesterday to improve its water distribution services.

"PAM Jaya has to be transparent to the public by informing the public about its actual ability, in which areas they can supply water and which ones they cannot," Rais said after a ceremony to install H. Rama Budi as the new production director of the company.

"Don't let the public expect more from PAM Jaya if technically the company is not capable of fulfilling all the public's demands," the vice governor said.

Rais acknowledged that there are still faults with both the company's administration and its water distribution. "I want the new director to improve the management of the company," Rais said.

PAM Jaya is expected to speed up the improvement of its services, especially since the City Administration raised artesian well fees for household, commercial and industrial use by 150 to 250 percent as of April 1.

The new rates are designed to encourage customers to use water from the company, discouraging further depletion of groundwater.

Rais also instructed the new director to coordinate with other related institutions, including the City Public Works Office and state-owned electricity company PLN, in the renovation and expansion of the firm's pipe network.

PAM Jaya's water distribution currently meets 56 percent of the city's total demand for drinking water. By the year 2000 the company is expected to raise its water production to about 63 percent of the total demand in the city.

At yesterday's ceremony Rais also installed H. Eddy Sofyan Diat as the new chief of Lokasari Amusement Park, Erwin Simanjuntak as the vice chairman of the Jakarta office of the Agency for the study of Pancasila and Max Sumaraw as a lecturer at the City Training Center. (31)