Hasyim Widhiarto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 01/29/2010 6:36 PM | Jakarta
The University of Indonesia (UI) is confident it will complete the construction of its new library, which will be one of the biggest and advanced libraries in the world, in June.
"The building's structure is complete and we are now about to finish the interior," UI spokesman Vishnu Juwono told The Jakarta Post on Friday. "We hope we can open the library by June."
Located next to the campus’ main lake, the new library, which will be open to students and the general public, has an eco-friendly design, with part of its power needs supplied by solar energy.
The eight-story library, built on 2.5-hectares of land, is designed to house more than three million books and facilitate up to 20,000 visitors a day.
The university is expecting the new library -- estimated to cost more than Rp 100 billion (US$9.8 million) -- to bring it one step closer to becoming a world-class university.
Construction of the library started in June last year.
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