Workshop  “Land Provision for Urban Development in MRT Jakarta Neighborhood”

The workshop of “Land Provision for Urban Development in MRT Jakarta Neighborhood” is held aiming at gathering knowledge from  of a variety of land and spatial planning authorities, and related experts of land consolidation, collect direct empirical knowledge from the cities and entities that have successfully implemented land consolidation policy for land provision, especially in regard to the construction of MRT system, identify and develop the necessary strategic policies to realize and legitimate the consolidation efforts in the transit area of MRT Jakarta neighborhood.

Through the workshop held in coordination by DKI Jakarta Spatial Planning Agency, National Land Agency (BPN) and PT MRT Jakarta, we expect to produce an ideal concept for land consolidation.

Jakarta, December 21, 2010 – As a part of the preparation of strategic safety & security plan for MRT Jakarta project, PT MRT Jakarta held a discussion on subsidence potency in Jakarta. Speaking in the discussion are Prof. Ir. Chaidir Anwar Makarim, MSCE., Ph.D

Media Road Show

During media road show/ newsroom visit, PT MRT Jakarta will pay visits to certain media in order to introduce and make discussions on the MRT project and PT MRT Jakarta with media partners. This activity focuses on the media editorial team.
This activity aims at providing better information about MRT to media, so that they can in turn provide reliable information to the public. In addition, this activity would also be helpful in building good relationship between corporate and media, and in making the media a partner in the process of educating public.
During 2010, PT MRT Jakarta has visited the editorial team of RCTI, Seputar Indonesia daily, Investor Daily and MRA Group.  In 2011, we target to visit at least 5 (five) mass media.

Media Gathering

Media gathering is an event to meet corporate representatives with media partners at the level of reporters and journalists. In this activity, corporate will deliver the progress made on the project to the media, and held discussion with them in form of Q&A session and genial talks. Journalists will also be given opportunity to make direct interview with the corporate spokesperson (Board of Directors and the Head of Communication Bureau).

PT MRT Applied Consistent GCG

In the commitment to uphold the principles of transparency, accountability and independence, PT Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the DKI Jakarta Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). The MoU became the basis of cooperation for the implementation of good corporate government (GCG) in accordance to the DKI Jakarta Gubernatorial Decree No 88/2003 on the Regional-owned Business (BUMD) Building and Development in the scope of DKI Jakarta Administration and the DKI Jakarta Gubernatorial Decree No 96/2004 on the Implementation of GCG in DKI Jakarta BUMD.

The MoU signing took place at the Wisma Nusantara on Wednesday, 23 December. Several points in this MoU were the assistance provided by BPKP to PT MRT Jakarta in audit and assessment, as well as technical assistance in the fields of GCG, risk management, work force indicators, IT management, and specific audit.

President Director of PT MRT Jakarta, Tribudi Rahardjo, said that besides complying with the company statues and regulation, a company must consistently implement the principles of professionalism, efficiency, transparency, independence, accountability and fairness – which are all embodied in GCG system. “This MoU will serve as a guideline for the implementation of cooperation in the framework of the implementation of strict and consistent good corporate governance within our company,” said Tribudi on Wednesday (23/12).

Tribudi further explained that they work with BPKP because this institution has the expertise in the field of supervision and good corporate governance. Hopefully this cooperation would help PT MRT Jakarta improve its performance. With the GCG being applied within the scope of PT MRT Jakarta, it is expected that all acts of corruption and irregularities in the corporate would be eliminated, so that MRT Jakarta project would be accomplished on time and on budget transparency. "We want to be open, to be transparent. We want all stakeholders to follow our steps. With GCG, we want to uphold the values of honesty, transparency, and accountability," he asserted.
In addition to the MoU signing, the board of directors and commissioners has also signed an integrity pact for board manuals and free of conflict of interest statement. Through the integrity pact, PT MRT Jakarta wants to declare its commitment to truly implement GCG guidelines, codes of conducts and a proportional reward and punishment system in the working environment of the company owned by DKI Jakarta Administration.

"Through this pact, the corporation asks all officials and employees of PT MRT Jakarta to agree with the integrity pacts and codes of conduct, and to be consistent and responsible in implementing these values in the efforts of building moral integrity," he said.

PT MRT Jakarta Director of Corporate Functions, Eddi Santosa, added that these values will not only be adopted within the scope of PT MRT Jakarta, but also to a third party engaged in the project of MRT Jakarta. "A company must start with high moral value. It has been agreed among our stakeholders. We try to make everything to comply with the GCGC, "said Eddi. Under the supervision of the BPKP, PT MRT Jakarta will have its performance assessed.

DKI Jakarta BPKP Chief Representative, Maliki Heru Santosa, said that BPKP will assist PT MRT Jakarta in carrying out all of its duties and responsibilities according to the GCG. Supervision would mostly be in the form of preventive action, which is how the management can carry out their duties with a good system and governance to prevent the occurrence of both administrative and budget irregularities. "We will audit the performance of PT MRT Jakarta to help them improve their work effectiveness and efficiency," said Maliki.

Jakarta January 26, 2010 – In preparing to implement the international standard of Safety & Risk Management in MRT Jakarta project, PT MRT Jakarta held an “Underground Tunnel Construction” seminar on the last quarter of 2009, in which international experts participate as speakers,

MRT Jakarta logo was born from a competition.

The competition was held for one month, and a total of 700 works from participants throughout the country were received. After going through a comprehensive judging process, the contest committee chose three works considered the most capable of representing the corporate identity of PT MRT Jakarta. The work of the first winner, after finalization in coordination with the PT MRT Jakarta, became the company logo and was applied to all of PT MRT Jakarta corporate identity. In accordance with the provisions of the contest, participants will fully assign the copyright of the chosen works to PT MRT Jakarta. It means that PT MRT Jakarta is the owner of copyright of the work in accordance with the Copyright Act.

The competition is a part of the establishment of PT MRT Jakarta corporate identity as well as an effort in fostering community participation and involvement in the construction of MRT Jakarta, in the hope of generating a sense of belonging among Indonesian people in general and Jakarta citizens in particular to the project of national pride.