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Greater Jakarta: Damaged park leads to demotion for official
Jakarta Governor Basuki âAhokâ Tjahaja Purnama has demoted Jansen Saragih from his position as head of the East Jakarta Parks Agency because the governor said he considered the latter to have failed to maintain an interactive park in Klender, East Jakarta
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akarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama has demoted Jansen Saragih from his position as head of the East Jakarta Parks Agency because the governor said he considered the latter to have failed to maintain an interactive park in Klender, East Jakarta.
Ahok said Tuesday that the East Jakarta administration should have been able to restore the damaged park instead of waiting for the 2016 regional budget disbursement. He added that the agency head should have used plant seeds owned by the Parks Agency.
'Why is it so hard to restore a park? I demoted him because he did not do his job,' Ahok said as quoted by beritajakarta.com.
He said the interactive park under the Klender overpass was damaged by street vendors who continued to peddle their goods at the location while city administration officers were not present.
'The park used to be a business place for the street vendors, so we cleaned it. Now the vendors have returned and damaged the park again,' he said.
