Hutama Karya Conducts Material Cleaning Of AGO Projects That Fall On The Jakarta MRT Rail

Iron fell on the MRT Jakarta route (Photo: ist)

JAKARTA - PT Hutama Karya (Persero) or HK immediately went down to acquire material for the Attorney General's (AGO) project that fell on the Jakarta MRT rails.

As is known, heavy equipment at the construction activities of the Attorney General's Office building on Jalan Panglima Polim, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta fell. The material for the construction hit the MRT Jakarta railroad line.

The incident occurred at around 16:40 WIB. As a result, the MRT was forced to temporarily stop the operation of the entire train series.

"Currently, the Hutama Karya project team is immediately cleaning the scene," said EVP Corporate Secretary of PT Hutama Karya (Persero) Adjib Al Hakim in an official statement, Thursday, May 30.

Adjib said the Hutama Karya project team also immediately investigated the cause of the fall of material for the Attorney General's (AGO) project on the Jakarta MRT rail.

"PT Hutama Karya (Persero) will continue to inform the latest updates on handling at the scene at the first opportunity through Hutama Karya's social media account," he explained.

Furthermore, Adjib said that his party had also coordinated with PT MRT Jakarta so that the Jakarta MRT service could function again.

"We apologize and are very sorry for the incident," he said.

As previously reported, heavy equipment at the construction activity of the Attorney General's Office building on Jalan Panglima Polim, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta fell. The material for the construction hit the MRT Jakarta railroad line.

"Because of the incident at the construction activities being carried out by the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, namely by contractor Hutama Karya, it has an impact on train operations, the operation of MRT Jakarta will be temporarily suspended," said MRT Jakarta Public Relations Ahmad Pratomo to reporters, Thursday, May 30.

After the incident, PT MRT Jakarta (Perseroda) fielded passengers at the nearest MRT station. There were no victims in the incident.

Pratomo explained that the relevant team is currently handling it. MRT Jakarta is also still tracing the facilities affected by the fall of heavy equipment on the flyover.

"The estimate is still waiting for the team in the field to check the scale of the damage," said Pratomo.