Moeldoko: There Is Still Time Until 2027 Gives Input On Tapera

Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko said there was still time for all parties to provide input regarding the implementation of Public Housing Savings (Tapera) until 2027.

This was conveyed by Moeldoko following the decision to apply Tapera contributions, from earlier this year, to no later than 2027.

"This tapera will be implemented no later than 2027. Until 2027 there is still time to provide input, consulatative and so on," said Moeldoko, quoted from Antara, Friday, June 7.

Moeldoko said regulations regarding Tapera contributions for state civil servants (ASN) and for independent workers had not yet been issued, both from the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Manpower.

According to Moeldoko, the problem of Tapera is not a matter of being postponed or not being postponed, but a matter of listening to the aspirations of various parties, so that there will be improvements through ministerial regulations that will be issued later.

On the other hand, Moeldoko explained, the spirit of implementing the Tapera contribution policy was based on the backlog of ownership of 9.9 million houses that must be handled by the state.

He explained that the state has provided subsidies so that interest on home ownership loans (KPR) can be reduced to 5 percent, but the policy is only able to encourage the ownership of 300,000 houses per year. Thus, new schemes are needed to overcome the backlog of ownership of houses.

He said that previously there had been a Housing Savings Advisory Agency (Bapertarum) to assist ASN in owning a house. However, the government feels that there needs to be a wider scope of the scheme, until this Tapera scheme appears.