Will Limit One Maximum Address To 3 Families, DKI Provincial Government Asks The Rest To Move To Flats

Illustration of flats built by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will regulate restrictions on the number of families living in the same address. The plan, one address is only allowed to be inhabited by a maximum of 3 family cards (KK).

Head of the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Agency (Disdukcapil), Budi Awaluddin, revealed that the follow-up to the restriction was to ask for the remaining family of more than 3 families in one address to move to flats (rusun).

"Yes, we will verify later, validate. Also look at the house, the conditions. Will we cooperate later, this is still in the academic paper, yes. We will transfer it to the flat later," Budi told reporters, Monday, May 20.

However, Budi said that his party was still reviewing the mechanism for implementing the rules to be issued through regional regulations (perda). This regional regulation will later be proposed to be discussed with the DKI Jakarta DPRD after Law Number 2 of 2024 concerning the Province of the Special Region of Jakarta (DKJ) applies.

"This will later enter the regional regulation. So, it is still an academic paper in making regional regulations that we will discuss in this one year. While waiting for Law Number 2, it can be applied later," explained Budi.

It is known that the plan to limit the rule of one house to a maximum of 3 families was previously disclosed by the Regional Secretary (Sekda) of the DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary Joko Agus Setyono in the working meeting of the Governor of the 2024 Main Mitra Praja Regional Cooperation Forum, Saturday, May 19.

Joko explained that this policy was taken with the aim of structuring population in Jakarta when he was no longer the capital city.

"In Jakarta, one address can be up to 13 to 15 families. There is also one house with up to 6 or 9 families. So instead, stay in the house instead. This is extraordinary and may not happen in other areas," said Joko.

"Therefore, we need to limit, we agree together so that one residential address is only allowed to have three family cards," he added.