Unused toilets mark ineptitude

Unused toilets mark ineptitude

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Many public toilets at schools
and government offices in villages across the provice have never
been used due to poor planning and water shortages, an official
said here on Friday.

Head of the Provincial Development Planning Board, Harli
Tombili, said most of the unused toilets, particularly those
built at the state and Islamic-based elementary schools and also
government offices, have become monuments to the construction
quality of the public facilities.

The findings, he said, are based on the survey conducted
recently by related government offices and a number of local
NGOs, such as the Village Potential Foundation, CARE, and the
Indonesian Village Foundation (Yadi).

The administration, he said, had spent a large amount of funds
to build the toilets.

But the parties that proposed the projects "did not think
about the supporting infrastructure for the toilets, such as the
amount of water available", Tombili was quoted by Antara as
saying.