Surakarta to Build a Rp 5.5 billion City Border Monument

Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 30 December, 2009 | 16:12 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Surakarta:The Surakarta city government plans to build a city border monument in Adisucipto Street. The budget is planned to amount to Rp5.5 billion.

“The monument will reflect Surakarta’s character as cultural city,” said the Head of the Surakarta City Planning Office Agus Djoko Witiarso yesterday.

The monument will have eight sides and its form resemble Kresna’s hat, the hero of a shadow-puppet story.

According to Agus, the monument will be 38 meters high, with a diameter of 23 meters and it will be installed lying across the street and sheltering it.

Head of the Surakarta Revenue, Financial Management and City Asset Office Anung Indro Susanto said that the monument construction will amount to Rp5.5 billion.

The expense, he said, will not be taken from regional funds.”But from a third party source,” he said.

AHMAD RAFIQ