Jokowi Asks BTN To Help Overcome Housing Backlog Issues

President Joko Widodo. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) requested that PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk help overcome the housing backlog problem. BTN was also asked to continue to innovate.

This was conveyed by Jokowi through a video broadcast on the 74th Anniversary of BTN, at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK), Jakarta, Sunday, March 3.

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.

Jokowi wants that at the age of 74 this year BTN can work together and collaborate to create more modern customer services.

I want to wish you a happy 74th birthday. I encourage BTN to continue to innovate, digitize, synergy and collaboration to create modern and sophisticated customer service, and help solve housing backlog problems in Indonesia," said Jokowi.

Meanwhile, based on the 2020 census, the number of housing backlogs in Indonesia reached 12.7 million families, of which 57 percent of the total backlog or 7.28 million families are low-income groups (MBR).

Furthermore, Jokowi also hopes that BTN can continue to contribute to helping the Indonesian people to get housing.

"Hopefully BTN will continue to contribute to helping the Indonesian people to have affordable housing and become Indonesia's proud bank," he explained.