Pondok Indah swimming pool

Pondok Indah swimming pool

The management of South Jakarta's crowded Pondok Indah
swimming pool seem not to care about public security and
convenience as the number of visitors to the pool keeps growing.

Security guards prefer loitering around blowing whistles to
warn swimmers against using big swimming tubes in the cascade or
shooing children of the lawns instead of taking an interest in
the safety of children as they climb the tall tower up to the
slide.

The guards ignore the kids standing in the middle of the
slide, which poses a danger of collision with those going down
and thus inevitable injuries.

No attention is paid either to the requirement to use swimming
tubes when going down the slide so that both adults and children
use the slide without tubes. Meanwhile, the number of tubes
available is very limited, and visitors sometimes hold on to them
even if they are not using them.

In addition, the cleanliness of the pool also needs attention.
It is essential that the management intervene and take prompt
action to remedy these deficiencies.

AMIR SIDHARTA

Jakarta