PKP Minister Ara Asks Pramono To Provide A Tapak House In Jakarta, Not Just Flats

Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait or Ara and DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung. (Diah-VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait or who is familiarly called Ara asked DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung to increase the provision of housing.

However, Ara asked the DKI Provincial Government not only to provide vertical houses such as rented flats (rusunawa) or flats owned (rusunami), but also landed houses.

"How do we start building subsidized houses in Jakarta, sir? Don't (story house building) and above, if we may consider it," said Ara after the socialization of housing program credit socialization at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, September 10.

Ara realized that the provision of landed houses outside Jakarta was not difficult because there were still many vacant land available. This is different from Jakarta. Therefore, Ara offers the use of government assets for the provision of these residences.

"Maybe there are a lot of subsidized houses outside Jakarta. Maybe in the future we will discuss how the central and Jakarta cooperation will take advantage of the existing assets," said Ara.

Furthermore, Ara revealed that President Prabowo Subianto targets the government to provide 3 million residential units during his leadership.

According to Ara, the preparation for providing housing in Jakarta has a fairly complete ecosystem, ranging from developers, providers of building materials, to people who are interested in housing loans, the majority of which are MSME actors.

"That's something extraordinary and the banks have confirmed earlier. Both from Himbara banks such as Mandiri, BRI, BTN, then also from their private banks, and also Bank Jakarta has also stated that they support this program," he explained.