Meeting

It is Thursday. Loving Thursday (Kamis Kliwon). I got up at 05:32 local time. At 06:30 I had breakfast at the food room. The hotel provided various dishes and drinks. I liked this service. At 07:00 Benny joined me in the room. We reported him the last night meeting.

At 09:15 I checked out. The room tariff was Rp879.670. I, Benny, Bambang, Haryanto, and Gias in a car went to Sulawesi I Riverbasins Management Office for joining a meeting.

The office located about 1km away from the hotel. We waited for other attendants for about 45 minutes. They were accompanying a former Highway Director General (Mr. Arie Setiadi) visiting the project site, Menado Bitung Toll Road.

At about 10:30 the meeting started. It was chaired by the chief of the office, Mochammad Silachoedin. The meeting was merely Mr. Arie's direction to treat a spring close to the project. Local people was disagreeing having a project close to the road. They wanted to relocate the road alignment. Hariyanto presented our plan. He insisted that the project would not affect the spring. An expert from Sam Ratulangi University also presented his finding and idea. He supported Hariyanto's analysis. The toll road president director (George Manurung) stated the alignment was fixed, it could not be relocated because it connected to other structures had been built. The contractor, the management project consultant, and other attendants also told their findings before Mr. Arie gave his direction. This first part meeting stopped at about 13:00. We then had lunch in King Oci Resto.

The resto was a seafood resto. Manado styled dishes were provided. I enjoyed grilled oci, waku snapper, and a vegetable dish.

Some of us then went back to the office to continue with the second part of the meeting. It was attended by the recommendation unit, the toll road company, the contractor, and the consultant. It discussed the technical recommendation process. An SOP named as SE Dirjen SDA 12A/SE/D/2016 had to be referred. At about 16:30 the meeting concluded.

We, the consultant team stopped by at a masjid nearby on the way to the airport. We had about 40 minutes for praying before maghrib time. The masjid was in a shopping spot area. It was clean and nice.

At maghrib time we arrived at Sam Ratulangi Airport. We prayed in a musala. About an hour later we cheched in. Our flight was Batik ID 6275 scheduled to be boarding at 19:50. I would be seat 8C. At about 21:00 (local time) we took off. At 22:45 we landed at Soekarno-Hatta Airport. I waited for Bambang for about 30 minutes because he was wheelchaired. We then got a Gojek car to bring us to the house.