Jakarta, 13 January 2017
PT. Batam
Island Marina, the developer of the so called Mega-Project “Funtasy Island” seems to have more trouble lately. The project which said to cost around $200
million and located in Riau Archipelago are questioned when they can’t pay the
contractors. Which leads to another questions, where did the money went?
One of the labor from PT. Chungma
we’ve interviewed are complaining that they didn’t received any payments until
New Year comes, and it’s been a year. We’ve been promised for many times, and
our patience has run out. Mr. Jeon, the president of PT. Chungma also said that
they do what they can by asking their payment for many times, but they only get
some portion of it.
The Labor has been reporting PT.
Chungma to Disnaker, and the police for a fraud. Therefore Mr. Jeon will direct
this matter to PT. Batam Island Marina. “We’ve been coming to their office across
Gelora Bung Karno, but their Director Luky Winata is avoiding us. He never pick
up our call nor reply messages.
“If they're not willing to pay,
they can just say so. So we can take another action to take what’s rightfully
ours. How many people’s lives are ruined because of this? I’m sure there will
be many leads to where the money went. Tax investigator will love it.”
PT. Batam Island Marina, also have
trouble with their own labor recently. Not to mention with the illegal immigrant
labor from China who continue working on the projects, and territorial dispute with Singapore. “This Developer have
many issues. If we go down because of them, we will drag them along with us", they said.
