Jakarta Electricity Shutdown - Alertness - Aris Susnanto

It was in February 2008. The state Electricity Company (PLN) was facing a challenge in maintaining electricity supply in Java-Bali, the bad weather has caused their supply of coal and fuel to their power station to be late to arrive at their scheduled time.

PLN announced that starting from 21 Feb 08 they had to switch off electricity in different areas in Jakarta in different times. With our help, Citi had been well prepared for power outage, in 2007, there were a lot of improvement measures that were done. The thing was the announcement was made the night before the actual shutdown plan, we received the news at 21 Feb 08 at around 20:00. SMS are quickly sent to our team including Aris Susnanto. Aris is one of our Supervisor assigned for the Citi project. He is responsible for Branches in South Jakarta.

The next morning, at 06:00AM Aris was already at the branches under his coordination. He checked all the electrical infrastructure and run the available genset for a test run. He ensured that everything was ready for the PLN shutdown. This was out of Aris' own initiative, the instruction given was to be alert only. Without detailed instruction Aris had shown his responsibility and took steps to minimize interruption to Citi's operation.

The electricity shutdown happened, all genset run smoothly, Handoko Hartanto, Citi CRS Indonesia Asset Manager was very happy with the result and recognized Aris' initiative. Colliers FM had also recognized Aris' Alertness character and presented him a Character Recognition Certificate in Feb 08.