DPRD Urges DKI Provincial Government To Control Apartment Managers Still Using Groundwater But Participates In Raising Clean Water Tariffs

Deputy Chairperson of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Ima Mahdiah urged the DKI Provincial Government to issue apartment managers or unscrupulous Associations of Flat Owners and Occupants (P3SRS) still using groundwater but also increasing clean water rates in Jakarta.

Ima admitted that she received reports from many apartment managers in Jakarta who took groundwater but charged residents with the new tariff for piped water managed by PAM Jaya.

"It turns out that a lot of apartment PPRS and so on half took PAM and half took ground water. But they used tariffs from PAM. This should have been put in order first," Ima told reporters, Friday, February 7.

As of January 2025, the DKI Provincial Government officially increased the clean water tariff managed by PAM Jaya. This new policy was implemented after the water tariff was not good since 2007. The increase in water rates also aims to accelerate the increase in service coverage by 100 percent by 2030.

On the one hand, Ima asked Perumda PAM Jaya to intensify socialization to the community, including apartment residents in Jakarta regarding the tariff adjustment policy so as not to cause polemics in the community.

"Don't let it happen later, for example, we don't increase (water rates), it turns out that we still have a lot of losses. Now, this loss has finally become a finding in law enforcement officials. Now that must be explained earlier. There may be elements in these areas that must be resolved immediately," said Ima.

Meanwhile, the President Director of PAM Jaya, Arief Nasrudin, admitted that the number of apartment customers is different from the landed house. According to the regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs, PAM Jaya only installed a master meter to serve hundreds to thousands of apartment units in it.

However, this adjustment in water rates in Jakarta received the spotlight of the Association of Indonesian Flats Occupants or P3RS because they felt too expensive. The solution, PAM Jaya will offer the installation of water meters to each apartment unit so that the use of water is recorded more transparently.

"Alhamdulillah, there is a solution, actually we have discussed it. Really, this is our input or input later, our idea can be accepted like that. So there is no issue about the tariff problem that will be carried out in the apartment," added Arief.