Depok Needs 23 Thousand Street Lights, Only 10,100 Points Are Installed

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JAKARTA - Depok City Government has conducted a study that this city needs 23 thousand public street lighting. Until now, Depok only has 10,100 lamps.

"Based on the study, Depok City needs 23 thousand PJUs to illuminate all road points, so there are still approximately 12 thousand that have not been installed," said Head of the Technical Implementation Unit for Public Street Lighting (UPT PJU), Depok City Transportation Agency, Yoga Parlindungan Pulungan, as quoted by Antara. Depok City Government official website, Tuesday, September 28.

The city government is still pursuing the need for public street lighting. Therefore, 543 lights will be installed this year on Protocol Roads in 11 sub-districts.

Yoga said, the installation of PJU points will begin in October 2021. The work will take three months, with a budget ceiling of Rp 800 million from the pure APBD.

"For this year, 543 points are planned to be carried out according to the 2020 Development Planning Deliberation (Musrenbang) the main ideas (pokir) and the Dishub needs plan. Currently, it is still in the auction stage and it is estimated that at the end of October there will be a winner of the auction," he said.

The 12 thousand lights that have not been installed have also been mapped. Namely, consisting of 3,000 points are PJUs on protocol roads and 9,900 points are located on environmental roads.

In addition, he continued, the kelurahan has also been delegated to handle the installation of environmental road PJUs. According to the Regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs (Permendagri), each kelurahan has a budget ceiling.

“To pursue the needs of PJU on environmental roads. You can go through the kelurahan because they have their own budget ceiling and know more about the priority locations,” he concluded.