Another PLN tower suffers damage from cutting

A PLN tower interconnecting the Aceh and North Sumatra power grids at Jambo Aye, Aceh province, has been cut.

"The high-voltage tower was cut with saws but had not yet toppled and power supply to Aceh`s 4,6 million residents was not disrupted," Sulaiman, PLN`s general manager for the Aceh Region, told journalists here on Friday.

"The tower had not yet toppled because the destructive action was discovered in time. Now the damage is being repaired," he said.

It was the second PLN tower-cutting incident to have happened in Aceh in 2012. In the first incident last January 7 in the Matang Seujuk region in Lhoksukon subdistrict, North Aceh district, the tower had already fallen down. As a result, there was a power outtage throughout Aceh province`s eastern coastal region.