Chinese Bidara Residents Help Build Infiltration Wells Unpaid, Deputy Governor Of DKI: The Money Is There

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria responded to the confession of residents of Bidara Cina Village who had not received payment after helping work on infiltration wells.

Riza emphasized that the DKI Provincial Government will definitely pay the service fee for the infiltration well construction because the budget is available.

"The money is there, it's impossible for the (DKI Provincial Government) not to pay it," said Riza at DKI City Hall, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, January 5.

Therefore, this Gerindra Party politician suggested that the residents follow up on the certainty of payment for the construction of infiltration wells to the DKI Water Resources Service (SDA).

"Please, if there are contractors who have not been paid, please submit them to SDA later," said Riza.

Previously, a number of residents of RT 11/RW 16, Bidara Cina Village, Jatinegara District, East Jakarta, admitted that they had not received payment after being hired to complete the infiltration well project at that location.

One of the residents, Ari (38), said that he was hired to continue the construction of the infiltration well which had been abandoned by a contractor partner of the DKI Jakarta Water Resources Service (SDA). IDR 150 thousand. However, after the three of them finished working on the hole and put the dug wells into 70 sacks, the promised payment was not paid.

"The total for the three of them is around IDR 700 thousand which has not been paid. On the third day of work I asked when he was paid. Finally he (the foreman) left, saying he wanted to take the money but didn't come back," said Ari.

He said that he and his colleagues were initially asked to work as casual laborers to dig infiltration wells and put the excavated soil into sacks on a wholesale basis.

"It just so happened that at that time we were unemployed, we were offered a job. For one hole, the calculation was Rp. 80,000, the same as traversing land for Rp. 1,500 per sack, working in wholesale.