What’s wrong with the story below that tells of how city authorities had found eight parking buildings to be unsafe and ordered them to make repairs?
Nothing, except it tells volumes about the culture of non-culpability that pervades Indonesian political life. If eight buildings are found to be unsafe structurally for parking it means that someone must have flouted safety regulations in building these buildings. And also someone must have approved these unsafe structures?
Yet is anyone being asked to be accountable for 1. building unsafe structures and 2. approving unsafe structures? Nope. So what journalism is the Jakarta Post practiscing by not asking these important questions?
Eight parking buildings ‘unsafe’
Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Jakarta property management and control agency said on Tuesday it had found eight out of 22 parking buildings it recently checked unsafe. “Those eight buildings need to be renovated with stronger structures,” agency head Hari Sasongko said. “Otherwise, we’ll seal the buildings.” The investigation of 22 parking buildings, most of them in shopping malls, was carried out from Jan. 25 to 30 after an accident that saw a car drive off the Menara Jamsostek building in South Jakarta. Hari said the buildings that were found unsafe had failed to meet minimum safety requirements set in a 2007 regulation on building structures and geotechnology planning. The regulation says walls in parking buildings must be strong enough to withstand collisions. |
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