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Ratu Plaza given two months to repair basement
The city administration will give two months for PT Ratu Sayang International (RSI) to fix the basement of Ratu Plaza shopping center in Central Jakarta after a gas leak incident, which sent 27 employees of Carrefour hypermarket to hospital
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The city administration will give two months for PT Ratu Sayang International (RSI) to fix the basement of Ratu Plaza shopping center in Central Jakarta after a gas leak incident, which sent 27 employees of Carrefour hypermarket to hospital.
"This is their last chance. If they fail to meet standard requirements, the basement will be closed," Governor Fauzi Bowo said Wednesday.
He said after the repair the administration would verify the basement's safety before allowing it to reopen.
The management of Carrefour's France-based retailer decided to keep renting out the basement despite a number of incidents which have caused employees and customers health problems since 2002.
"We still want to continue renting out the basement because we want to keep the place. We will follow any process required by the city administration," director for corporate affairs Irawan Kadarman said.
He said Carrefour would open again after the building's management repaired the basement.
During a blackout, the building's ventilator was cut, leaking carbon-monoxide into the basement. Employees were taken to Pertamina Hospital, South Jakarta, suffering nausea, vomiting, headaches and respiratory problems.
The city's property management and control agency head Hari Sasongko said the city administration would take the incident to court.
"The city's manpower and transmigration agency, as well as the city health agency, have proposed a number of recommendations, including legal action," he said Tuesday after a meeting with RSI.
Officials from the city's fire agency, environmental management agency, city economic affairs bureau and the legal affairs bureau, as well as representatives of France-based retailer Carrefour, also attended the meeting.
Representatives of a city-appointed team in charge of reviewing the building's condition also attended the meeting.
RSI refused to comment on the administration's response to the incident. (ind)
