Water meter registration

Water meter registration

JAKARTA (JP): A councilor has questioned a decision made by
the city-owned water company, PAM Jaya, to hand over the water
meter registration contract to a private company without a tender
process.

Saud Rachman, a member of the City Council's Commission D, in
charge of development affairs, told reporters on Saturday that
the decision to give the contract to PT Belmanda Lestari has to
be clarified because the job is not complicated and any one can
do it.

"Why didn't the company open a tender before granting the
contract?" Saud asked.

He said it would be fair and objective if the project is given
to a company that wins in the tender. He also questioned the
decision to hand over the job to the private company because the
meter registering is the duty of the water company.

"Registering the water meter is the daily job of PAM
employees, why should it be transferred to a private firm?," he
asked again, adding that the cooperation is only wasting PAM's
funds.

"It will be cheaper if PAM conducts the job itself because the
water company will lose Rp 3 billion (US$1.36 million) per year
which it collects from its customers at Rp 850 each per month,"
he said. (yns)