Ara Schedules A Meeting With Housing Developers Today, What Do You Want To Discuss?

JAKARTA - Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait (Ara) scheduled a meeting with housing developers in his office today, Friday, February 21.

The meeting was held after a number of developer associations denied accusations by the Ministry of PKP regarding the development of rogue subsidy housing. During the meeting, Ara invited housing developers to submit data against rogue developers.

"The facts that I should have conveyed in the ministry, what we post is a denial if it is not true," said Ara when met at the Ministry of Finance, Jakarta, Thursday night, February 20.

If the subsidized housing built by the developer is not flooded as found by the Ministry of PKP, Ara asks the developer to show the facts. Likewise related to the problem of cracked houses.

"If you want a counter with data. We submit data, submit photos. Reply if it's not true," said Ara.

"Does anyone want a counter?" he continued.

Chairman of Real Estate Indonesia (REI) Joko Suranto said the accusations by the Ministry of PKP caused housing developers to feel annoyed. Developers feel they do not receive government protection and guidance.

"We have a stigma, we are in a condition that the developer must be wrong," Joko said at a press conference in the Kebayoran Baru area, South Jakarta, Tuesday, February 18.

In fact, according to Joko, housing developers have helped the government provide housing for the community. In addition, creating jobs and paying taxes. "Without our guidance, we do. But, really, it's still lacking," he said.

On the other hand, Joko did not deny that there were subsidized house developers whose performance was poor. However, the number is only a handful of individuals. "But in the end it becomes a drama story," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the National Housing Development Alliance (Appernas Jaya) Adriliwan Muhammad regretted the statements of the Minister of PKP Ara regarding the program of 3 million houses made by President Prabowo Subianto.

Adriliwan assessed that the property sector in the country is currently being hit by issues that are not good. So, it can make it difficult for the government itself to achieve the program's target.

"Most of those under our association are 80 percent working on subsidized houses. However, recently with the issue instability that should be controlled by the authorities, this (Minister of PKP) has even made unclear issues that have run everywhere," he said at a press conference in the Kebayoran Baru area, South Jakarta, Tuesday, February 18.

"Where does it impact? Actually, the impact of running everywhere is that I mean running to MBR (low-income people), running to developers and nothing but the government itself, in this case Pak Prabowo," he added.

The slanted issues range from the plan to change the FLPP distribution scheme to the stigmatization of rogue developers that has been sticking out recently.

"With the unstable issue, in my personal opinion it is a commotion that damages the economic order or does not side with the MBR. What should be with the presence of the Ministry (PKP) now, it has been 10 years (anticipated) we should have had extraordinary energy, yes. But, if I personally see approximately 100 days we are not enthusiastic about building subsidized houses," he said.