Counting the Damage
A breakdown in the distribution system of the Cibinong transformer plunged Bogor and its surroundings into darkness, causing hundreds of billions of rupiah in losses.
April 10, 2001
LET this be a valuable lesson to those of you who have been depending on the state electricity company, PLN, for energy to run your business. The misery in Bogor might be an incentive to think of alternative power sources. It began on Saturday, March 31, when the 20 KV cells, which function as a distribution system of electric current, at the main Cibinong transformer suddenly stalled. As a result, electricity supply to parts of Bogor regency cam
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