Stalled project irks councillors

TANGERANG: The Tangerang municipal council will ask an independent team to audit a stalled building project.

"We suspect irregularities in the project ... that could derail the administration's current 'year of quality' program," the council's deputy speaker, Arif Wahyudi, said on Thursday.

The project to construct a two-story council building has been stalled for two years. It was originally scheduled for completion by 2004.

The councillors announced earlier the building project had cost the administration Rp 3 billion, although only Rp 2 billion had been allocated for the project from the city budget. -- JP