Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The City Administration of Banjarmasin has programmed to change street lighting (PJU) with LED-based bulbs and at the same time to curb PJU from illegal one.
"The fund allocated for the PJU program in the 2020 budget (APBD) is IDR5 billion," Head of the city Public Works and Spatial (PUPR) Agency Arifin Noor remarked here on Tuesday (Dec 3, 2019).
He said, one of the points of PJU installment will be along the Jalan Piere Tendean, an area of the most visited tourist attraction whit the Martapura River embankment (siring).
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According to him, the program is a form of arrangement of Street Lighting System (PJU), so there will be no more illegal PJU.
"We make saving energy PJU by using LED-based bulb," he pointed out.
The saving energy program has actually been running for several years and the agency had replaced tens of thousand of bulbs with
electricity saving one.
The result was, the amount of monthly electricity bill reduced. A few years ago it was IDR3 billion per month, now it reduced even to 50 percent.
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The problem is, he admitted, the city still bears huge bills from illegal PJU reaching IDR900 millions every month. "Whereas the official PJU electricity bill is IDR300 million per month," Arifin explained.
That is why the PJU must be put into order, so there will be no more overlap and would not burdersome to payments.
"Every month, nearly 200 requsts from public ask for PJU to be installed in their neighborhood," he said.
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