JAKARTA - Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) Maruarar Sirait said President Prabowo Subianto would directly announce additional occupancy quotas for low-income people (MBR).
Maruarar at the Jakarta Presidential Palace Complex, Tuesday night, said that this was a continuation of the commitment of President Prabowo Subianto's Government to prepare decent housing at an affordable price for the Indonesian people.
"Hopefully in the near future the President will also announce an additional quota. Because this subsidized house is in great demand by the public, the bank is also happy because the tax credit is low," said Maruarar.
In terms of providing MBR housing, since the Red and White Cabinet worked from October 20, 2024 to March 3, 2025 or for 130 days President Prabowo led, there have been as many as 110,000 MBR occupancy that have been carried out and even handed over.
Maruarar said that his party is trying to continue to increase the number of MBR housing available to the community in accordance with the funds prepared by the government in 2024, namely for 220,000 MBR housing.
The man who is familiarly called Ara stated that so far two challenges have been found that have been tried to be handled by the Ministry of PKP in providing MBR housing. The first is related to ensuring that the provision of MBR residential subsidies is received on target and the second is related to the quality of housing.
For the first challenge, Ara said that his party coordinated with the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) to ensure that the data on people receiving MBR residential subsidies was in accordance with their needs.
"(Hunian) MBR is for low-income people. Now, low-income people will be determined later by name by address from BPS. So that nothing else is not right on target. So everything is right on target," he said.
Meanwhile, the second challenge in providing MBR housing is related to the quality results of the buildings built, because according to him there are only property developers who are less thorough so that the final results of the housing are less quality.
In handling this second challenge, Ara specifically formed a curator team consisting of echelon I of the Ministry of PKP, including himself, to check the quality of subsidized housing.
"We are asked to continue to ensure that the quota (MBR occupancy) will not increase, but the quality will decrease. So even though the subsidized house, President Prabowo's order must also remain of high quality," said the Minister of PKP.
So far, in the findings of the MBR residential curator team, there have actually been quite a lot of quality MBR housing, but it was found that the quality of the building was not good due to the negligence of the residence developer.
Ara gave an example of one of his findings related to inadequate subsidy housing in Bekasi, which turned out to have only been ratified for one year, but the residence has experienced problems on uneven and bubbled floors.
There are also findings of these residences that have difficulty accessing after being hit by rain and causing the housing to be flooded.
According to Ara, things like this must be anticipated in the construction of the next MBR housing in the era of President Prabowo Subianto, so that later people can feel optimally proper housing even though it is subsidized by the government.
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