Jakarta Flood 2008 - Thoroughness - Saepul, Sukron, Parnyo, Irfan, Amron & Achmad

It was Friday, 1st Feb 08, we have all Supervisors from all over Indonesia at our Prapanca office for a two-day training. It was raining since early in the morning, non-stop, and it happened, Jakarta was flooded. We had just been appointed by DBS to manage all their premises in Indonesia, and we were still trying to put it all together.

DBS Kelapa Gading branch and DBS Muara Karang branch were flooded, Amron K. Wahyudi our Account Manager and Achmad Chotib, our Chief Engineer quickly decided that we have to get our Supervisors on-site to minimize the impact to the branches. We need to have sand bags and extra fuel for the genset the soonest possible. Saepul Perdanaputra, our Supervisor assisted by Parnyo, our driver were sent to DBS Muara Karang branch. Sukron, another Supervisor and Irfan, our Helper were sent to Kelapa Gading, Kota and Muara Karang to deliver extra fuel for the gensets.

Saepul and Parnyo left our Prapanca office at 14:00 with the objective to coordinate vendors to deliver the sandbags and help DBS Muara Karang branch to minimize the flood impact. Traffic was totally jammed, they arrived 6 hours later at 20:00. All of the vendors gave up. Saepul and Parnyo didn't.

Sukron and Irfan left our Prapanca office at 18:00 with fuel to deliver to three DBS branches. They arrived at DBS Kelapa Gading at 21:00, DBS Kota branch at 24:00 and DBS Muara Karang at 02:00 in the morning! They got back to the office at 03:30 in the morning after completing their tasks.

Each of them can give up at anytime with solid excuses. They did not. They showed their great responsibility, persistence and thoroughness. Colliers FM gave Amron, Achmad, Saepul, Sukron, Irfan and Parnyo Character Recognition Certificates in Feb 08.