Jokowi Freezes Payment of Faulty Transjakarta Buses
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Senin, 28 April 2014 16:46 WIB
Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo onboard a new TransJakarta articulated bus. TEMPO/Dasril Roszandi
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has confirmed he would not continue the payment of the capital's corroded Transjakarta buses. “We will stop it. We don’t want to accept damaged items,” said Jokowi on Sunday. “We will order new ones through the e-catalog," he said.
Jokowi said he would optimize the transjakarta bus service operated by PT Transportasi Jakarta, a provincially-owned company (BUMD) inaugurated on March 27, which was currently in a transition period.
“Whatever the transition is, it has to keep going. It is just a transfer from a technical unit to a BUMD,” he said. “We only need to replace the hardware and software.”
Some of the Transjakarta buses the city administration purchased in a project worth Rp1.5 trillion from July to September 2013 have been found to be faulty.
The problem in the project was discovered last February with damages found in some of the 90 buses parked at the Transjakarta Management Unit in Cawang, East Jakata. The case is still being handled by the Attorney General Office.
