BPK Calls Anies Not Optimal In Providing Affordable Housing For The Poor

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan at the plenary session of the DKI DPRD some time ago/PHOTO DOK VOI-Diah Ayu

JAKARTA - The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has released the 2021 BPK Annual Report, which contains an in-depth analysis of public policies or government programs to provide their opinion.

One of the policies highlighted by BPK is the program to provide housing for low-income people (MBR) or the poor by the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan.

"The performance inspection on the provision of housing for MBR in the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is carried out on 1 object of inspection, namely an examination of the provision of affordable and sustainable housing units for MBR for the 2018-2020 Fiscal Year at the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government," wrote BPK Chairman Agung Firman Sampurna in the annual report. BPK, quoted Monday, 6 June.

In the report, BPK concluded that there were a number of problems with the housing provision program for the poor, which was still not optimal. This is due to the ineffectiveness of providing rental flats (rusunawa) and owned flats (rusunami).

Agung explained that there was a problem that the database for planning the provision of affordable and sustainable residential units was inadequate.

Then, the resources in providing affordable and sustainable residential units have not been fully utilized optimally and the fulfillment of residential units has not been fully in accordance with the needs of MBR.

This problem, said Angung, was caused by the reduction of the backlog through the provision of flats for low-income households and the shortage could not be projected in the next RPJMD period.

Then, the target for the availability of rusunami with the BUMD mechanism and government and business entity cooperation (KPBU) set out in the 2017-2022 RPJMD such as the Rp0 DP House has the potential to not be achieved.

In addition, BPK also assessed that Rusunawa could not be optimally occupied. In addition, there is the potential for an increase in expenditure and a decrease in the social and economic life of the MBR who inhabit the flats.

Therefore, Agung gave a number of recommendations to be followed up by Anies and the next Governor of DKI Jakarta.

"Recommendations for the Governor of DKI Jakarta are to review the reliability of data, concepts, and refine the planning for the provision of residential units. Then compile a study of the concept of maximizing land use and formulate a plan to provide development funding needs," he wrote.