Ministry Of ATR/BPN Says Land Availability Is Still Minimal To Build 3 Million Houses

Secretary General of the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Suyus Widayana. (Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Suyus Widayana said that the willingness of land in Indonesia to build houses was still quite minimal.

This is considered to be a challenge in realizing the three million housing program launched by President Prabowo Subianto.

Suyus stated that these lands must be provided by Bank Tanah. According to him, Land Banks need to be more proactive in obtaining land, not only relying on unused release or land, but also being able to utilize land from the forestry and transmigration sectors.

"The Housing Task Force has taken care of it because they think we still have a lot of land, even though our land is still quite minimal for development classes," said Suyus in the FGD for the Development of the Agrarian Reform Program for the Land Bank at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Jakarta, Thursday, October 24.

He revealed that many of the land from transmigration whose management rights (HPL) were not given to the community, but were carried out by third parties. Therefore, the Ministry of ATR/BPN plans to return the land to Bank Tanah.

In addition, he also said that his party had conducted spatial planning inventory to identify potential locations for housing development. They will check the ownership status of the land and if it is proven to belong to the state, development can be carried out immediately.

"All assets, all kinds of government assets that have been idle or have not been utilized may later be used for the construction of houses," he said.

Previously, the Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait admitted that he was optimistic that he could carry out the groundbreaking or groundbreaking of the three million house project launched by President Prabowo Subianto in the first 100 days of his work.

The minister, who is familiarly called Ara, admitted that he would speed up the implementation through a periodic review of a number of projects that had been built by the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Housing.

"I will carry out a review of the projects that have been built so far by the Directorate General of Housing. Our target in the first 100 days can be carried out by groundbreaking for housing development for the people," Maruarar said in a written statement, quoted Thursday, October 24.

In addition, to make this happen, he admitted that he would continue to campaign for the spirit of mutual cooperation to build houses for the people in the three million housing program.

One of the priorities is building synergies and cooperation with government ministries/agencies, local governments, the TNI, Polri, BUMN and the private sector.