Bogor City PUPR Service Cut Thousands Of Semrawut Cable Waste

Cable semrawut around Jambu Dua area, Bogor City. (ANTARA/Shabrina Zakaria)

JAKARTA - Since 2023, the Department of Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR) of Bogor City, West Java, has curbed or cut thousands of chaotic cables and revoked hundreds of utility poles in its area.

Head of the Bogor City PUPR Office, Rena Da Frina, in Bogor City, said on Wednesday that around 30 to 40 percent of the cables and poles were garbage and were no longer functioning.

"Many cables (cuted) thousands, we have also removed hundreds of poles. At that time there were about 30-40 percent of garbage cables," said Rena as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 22.

He said that the chaotic cables were mostly provider cables or internet providers. Some are even electric cables, but the PUPR Service cannot just cut the power lines.

Rena said that in Bogor City there were 30 registered internet providers. While the rest who have not been registered are brought under control by the PUPR Service, based on reports from the village head and the local sub-district head.

Prior to the cuts or termination, Rena had warned relevant providers through a group containing the PUPR Service and providers.

"Now those who want to install (wires or poles) are new, we haven't given them, the old ones haven't been done yet," he said.

According to Rena, these garbage cables are allowed by providers to save maintenance costs. In fact, maintenance costs should also include dismantling the installation of assets.

Just like they ride in our ditches, they should have a fee to plant. When it rains, garbage, there are cables, floods, protest to us," he said.

In addition, currently the Bogor City PUPR Service is also carrying out the relocation of cables from the air to the ground. The two points that pilot the project are Ahmad Yani Street, and the area around the Otista Bridge which was carried out with Apjatel.