SOE Minister To BTN: Must Be A Solution For Young People's Future Housing

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir asked PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk or BTN to be a housing solution for the future of young Indonesians. The reason is, the challenge of housing for the community will be even greater in the future.

Erick said that 52 percent of Indonesia's population now lives in urban areas, no longer in rural areas.

Therefore, BTN must have a big strategy in order to provide housing solutions.

"What does that mean? When BTN becomes a solution for the future housing of young people in the future, this really has to have a big strategy," he said at the 74th BTN Anniversary event, at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK), Jakarta, Sunday, March 3.

Furthermore, Erick said, financing for 800,000 houses is not enough to meet the needs of the community.

In fact, said Erick, the housing backlog has reached 12.7 million houses.

The housing backlog is the condition of the gap between the number of houses being built and the number of houses needed by the people. This means that the quantity of houses that have not been or are not handled.

"The 80,000 houses are not enough today, 600,000 houses are not enough because of the need for a backlog of 12.7 million. The numbers of 1 to 1.15 million in the future must be a breakthrough," he said.

Even so, Erick said that of the 600,000 financing, 300,000 had been carried out by BTN. Even so, Erick wants BTN to work harder.

"BTN is extraordinary, out of 600,000, now there are 300,000 BTNs. The rest is of course Mr. Bas (Minister of PUPR) and the government. But when the numbers are 1 to 1.5 million we have to work even harder," he said.