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Agency to meet with 200 Pasar Rumput construction workers following fatal accident
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Motorcyclists pass the Pasar Rumput low-cost apartment construction site in South Jakarta on March 21. A middle-aged woman was killed after being hit by an iron bar that fell on her at the site on Sunday. (Antara/Dhemas Reviyanto)
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he Jakarta Manpower Agency is set to meet with 200 workers at the Pasar Rumput low-cost apartment construction site in South Jakarta following a fatal accident on Sunday in which a woman was killed after being hit by an iron bar.
In the meeting, the agency will talk to the workers about the importance of safety.
“We hope the accident won’t happen again because the previous incident not only affected the workers, but also us,” the agency's head of manpower supervision, Khadik Triyanto, said on Wednesday as quoted by kompas.com.
Khadik said the company had instructed PT Waskita Karya, the project developer, to follow through on requirements.
“We want the company to immediately provide the safety equipment, such as a safety net, safety screen and other equipment as stipulated in prevailing regulations,” he said, noting that the agency had also asked the company to test its construction equipment, such as cranes.
The company should also train the workers, especially the operators, on properly carrying out their duties, Khadik added.
The South Jakarta Police said negligence from the inspector had contributed to the accident.
“The guilty party comprises several people, including the inspector, who should have come to the site at 8 a.m., but [he] in fact came late [on the day of the accident],” said former South Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Mardiaz Kusin Dwihananto, who had overseen the investigation until his recent inauguration as the National Police chief’s personal secretary and coordinator.
The police would question the inspector, Mardiaz said. (cal)
