DKI Provincial Government Starts Unpacking the Broken Monorail Pole in the Third Week of January

The monorail pole is stuck on Jalan HR Rasuna Said, South Jakarta. (Diah-VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung said the DKI Provincial Government will start dismantling the broken monorail pole on Jalan HR Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, in the third week of January this year.

"The third week of January starts," said Pramono at Kemang Village, South Jakarta, Monday, January 5.

Pramono has targeted the demolition of this monorail pole to be realized no later than this month. The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has prepared a special budget for this work, including the rearrangement of the Rasuna Said area, which has long been known as one of the busiest corridors in South Jakarta.

Previously, Pramono admitted that he had asked PT Adhi Karya (Persero) to dismantle the broken monorail pole in order to end the fate of the former failed project pole. Because, based on the court's decision, the asset was declared to belong to Adhi Karya.

However, until now, Adhi Karya has not moved to demolish it. So, Pramono admitted that the DKI Provincial Government would realize it.

"Because we have issued a letter, we have given them a one-month deadline. If they can't do it, we will do it ourselves," said Pramono.

According to him, the demolition of the monorail pole will be carried out simultaneously with the widening of the road and the construction of a new sidewalk to improve the quality of public space as well as facilitate vehicle traffic in the Kuningan office area.

Since a few years ago, the Jakarta monorail project pillars that are stuck along HR Rasuna Said and Asia Africa roads have begun to be considered disturbing.

Initially, the construction of the monorail project in Jakarta began in 2004. At that time, the Governor of DKI was still held by Sutiyoso. The DKI Provincial Government worked together with PT Jakarta Monorail as the developer or investor of the project.

The failure of the project began to appear after several years of construction. When the monorail pole was anchored, DKI Governor Fauzi Bowo (who replaced Sutiyoso) stopped the construction due to financial problems.

In 2014, former Governor of DKI Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama canceled the contract with PT Jakarta Monorail. In the court's ruling, the assets of the monorail pole were declared to belong to Adhi Karya, so that the state-owned company wanted to dismantle it.