Park beautification starts in October

Deputy Governor for Economic and Development Affairs Tb. M. Rais said that the project to "beautify" the Medan Merdeka park, a park across from city hall in Central Jakarta, will be started in October.

M. Rais said that the Rp 380 billion (US$174 million) project will take four years to be completed.

Rais said that for the first phase of the project the city has allocated Rp 3 billion ($1.3 million.) The first phase is expected to be accomplished before the commemoration of Indonesia's 50th independence day on Aug. 17, 1995.

Rais explained that in the first phase, the city will build artistic foot path through the park.

"The path design is inspired by a combination of art and technology," Rais said.

He said that the path was constructed from a special kind of natural stone which can only be found outside Jakarta.(03)