Customers must still pay Sept. bill: Water firm
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Wed, 09/07/2011 9:12 PM
State water company PDAM says it is not prepared to free customers from their September water payment to compensate the recent 5-day water crisis.
“They do not have to pay for the water they did not receive over those days. But we cannot exempt them from paying the September bill,” PDAM Executive Director Mauritz Napitupulu said Wednesday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Mauritz said that PDAM was in a Rp 583.67 billion debt to the two clean water supply firms, PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja) and Aetra, which was accumulated in 2010 resulting from what he said was an unfair agreement. The debt could reach up to around Rp 18.2 trillion by 2022.
“The pressure would just be too much if the customers did not pay this month,” he added.
The Indonesian Parliament Monitoring and Empowerment Committee called on Jakarta residents to boycott their September PDAM payment after their water supply was cut off.
A floodgate at Buaran Dam collapsed last Wednesday, leaving almost a million households without water supply for a few days.
wo 7 sep 2011 - 17:33