Pulogebang bus terminal project starts next year

Pulogebang bus terminal project starts next year

JAKARTA (JP): The construction of a modern city bus terminal
in Pulogebang, East Jakarta, is due to start next year and the
complex is expected to go into operation in 1998.

Prawoto Danoemihardjo, assistant to the city secretary
responsible for development affairs, told reporters at City Hall
yesterday that the developer had been asked to construct the
terminal as soon as the results of the environment impact
analysis had been obtained.

Prawoto said the development of the terminal should be
synchronized with the construction of the access road networks by
the city public works office so that the terminal could be used
as soon as it had been completed.

The Pulogebang bus terminal will replace the 3.5-hectare
Pulogadung bus station, which is no longer considered suitable
for a bus terminal.

In 1989 the city administration signed a memorandum of
understanding with a private company, PT Rodial Eron, to relocate
the terminal under a barter agreement, whereby the developer
would provide the land and build the terminal in Pulogebang in
return for being allowed to use the site of the Pulogadung
terminal for a commercial center.

Prawoto said the agreement had been approved by both the City
Council and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

He said that the terminal would be constructed on a plot of
land appropriated by the developer which measures 7.1 hectares.

Under the memorandum of understanding the total area of the
terminal complex should have been 10 hectares, but for the moment
only 7.1 hectares are available. Under the current agreement the
city administration will later provide an additional 2.9 hectares
to extend the terminal.

Monitor

In a related development, Lukman F. Mokoginta, the chairman of
the Indonesian Democracy Party faction in the city council, said
that the city administration should closely monitor the
execution of the project in order to avoid a repeat of the
mistakes made in the construction of the Kampung Rambutan bus
terminal in East Jakarta in 1991.

The construction of the Kampung Rambutan bus terminal, during
the tenure of Governor Wijogo Atmodarminto, was widely criticized
by the public after it transpired that the contractors awarded
the project by the governor had used low-quality building
materials.

A few months after the terminal had been completed the walls
developed cracks and the roads inside the complex proved easily
damaged. Wiyogo was no longer governor when the construction of
the station was completed.

The public blamed the fiasco on a lack of supervision on the
part of the city administration viz-a-viz then governor Wiyogo.
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