As part of requirement of loan agreement, and the ongoing activity of independent technical audit of individual projects, TFAC Consultants commenced their fourth round of audits from February 2012. These audits will cover Full audits, Monitoring audits and Provision hand over audits.

A Provisional Hand Over (PHO) Audit  was carried out on ENB-02,  Km 70 – Cabin Dompu  (Sumbawa  province)  between 19th – 20th April 2012. The objective of the Provisional Hand Over Audit is to assess the compliance of the completed facility with the requirements of the designs and specification, to assess the quality of the completed facility, to assess what non-conforming aspects of the facility require correction before PHO is implemented and to assess what non-conforming aspects of the project can be addressed during the defect liability period.

The attached report is the Final Provision Hand Over Audit Report for ENB-02, issued by AusAID on 11 May  2012.

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In accordance with clause III.A.1(a) of Schedule 2 of AIPRD-L002 loan agreement for Eastern Indonesia National Road Improvement Project (EINRIP), this is the monthly Project Progress Report (PPR) for March 2012.

Loan Agreement

The original loan closing date of 1 June 2011 has been extended to 31 March 2013 and amendment to the Loan Agreement was signed on 9 June 2011.

Environmental Studies

From the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• Environmental studies were not required for 6 packages.

• Environmental studies (UKL/UPL) for 11 packages have been completed.

• AMDAL for ESS-04, ESS-05 and ESS-06 is complete, approval granted by Governor of South Sulawesi.

Land Acquisition

Of the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• There was no land acquisition required for 2 packages.

• Land acquisition for 16 packages is complete.

• Compensation payments for land acquisition in packages ESS-05 & ESS-06 (LG Bulukumba and Sinjai in South Sulawesi) commenced in late 2011 and are ongoing.

Procurement of Civil Works

• Procurement completed for 18 packages and contracts have already commenced construction.

• Procurement process for two packages ESS-05 and ESS-06 commenced in July 2011 and bid opening was held in Makassar on 22-Nov 2011.

• The BER for both packages has been completed and submitted to AusAID. Additional clarifications were asked from the bidders, and revised BER was sent to AusAID in Feb-2012. NOL for Award for both packages was issued by AusAID on 29 February 2012.

• The Notification of Awards for both packages was issued on 16 March 2012.

• Successful bidder for ESS-05 is PT Multi Structure (Bid Price Rp 97.536 billion); and for ESS-06 is PT Waskita Karya (Bid Price Rp 126.750 billion).

Explanation of FMR No 14 (period January - March 2012) as follows :

Up to 1st Quarter 2012, the cumulative expenditure is Rp. 1,374.92 million (AUS$ 157.32 million) with sources of funds as follow:

• GOA (AusAID) : Rp. 1,255.24 million (AUS$ 140.226 million)
• GOI Counterpart : Rp. 149.68 million (AUS$ 17.052 million).

And the detail uses of funds by category up to 1st Quarter 2012 are as follow:

1st Quarter 2012 shows total of expenditure is Rp. 54.68 million (AUS$ 5.69 million) with sources of funds as
follow:

• GOA (AusAID) : Rp. 48.66 million (AUS$. 5.068 million).
• GOI Counterpart : Rp. 6.01 million (AUS$. 0.625 million).

And the detail uses of funds by category in 1st Quarter 2012 are as follows...

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As part of requirement of loan agreement, and the ongoing activity of independent technical audit of individual projects, TFAC Consultants commenced their fourth round of audits from February 2012. These audits will cover Full audits, Monitoring audits and Pre-Hand over audits.

A Pre-taking Over Audit of Package EBL-02, Tohpati-Kusamba Stage 2 was conducted on site in between 27th and 29th March 2012 by the TFAC team which the purpose  to assess the completion requirements of the works in relation to the contract documents. TFAC team observed that much of the work on this project has been well done, however a significant number of outstanding works, a number of new non-conformities and a number of unresolved non-conformities from the original audit were identified by the Pre-Taking Over Audit team.

The attached report is the Pre-Taking Over Audit Report for EBL-02 issued by AusAID on 23 April 2012

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