Two die after falling from 13th floor of BI building
Two die after falling from 13th floor of BI building
Two men died instantly after falling from the 13th floor of the
central bank building on Jl. M.H. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, on
Wednesday morning, Police said.
Sr. Comr. Edmond Elyas, the Central Jakarta Police precinct
chief said that the men, identified as Abdul Rohim and Niko, were
the building cleaners, who were washing the outside windows.
Witnesses said the incident occurred after the suspension
device they were on broke loose and the pair fell and hit the
balcony of the fourth floor of the building.
Their bodies were later taken to the morgue at Cipto
Mangunkusumo hospital. Rohim's father, Entang, said that he
expected the cleaning service company for which his son had
worked to take full responsibility.
Similar cases occasionally happen throughout the country
because most cleaning service companies do not take proper safety
measures with their suspension devices, called a "gondola", which
is used on many buildings.
On Feb. 1, 2001, three workers died instantly after falling
from a height of 25 meters at the Mall Ciputra shopping center in
West Jakarta when they were cleaning a McDonald's billboard. The
deadly incident was apparently caused by faulty ropes.
The three men -- Sumarto, 33, a resident of Cibinong, West
Java; S. Hartono, 33, a resident of Ciamis, West Java; and
Kusnadi, 32, a resident of Tanah Tinggi in Central Jakarta --
were workers for the cleaning service company PT Multi Optimal
Roda Internusa.
On Oct. 9, 1999, three workers from PT International Service
System (ISS) also died after falling from the sixth floor of
Gedung Tira in Jl. Rasuna Said, Setiabudi, South Jakarta.
Those three, Dian Kurniawan, 19, Nandang Indriyanto, 23, and
Gunawan, 26, were killed when the gondola ropes came loose from
the supporting iron poles on the top of the building.
According to the building management, after the incident
Nandang and Gunawan were taken to MMC hospital nearby, while Dian
was taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital. But due to their
serious injuries they all died. -- JP