Rules For Restrictions On The Residential Period Of Flats Not Yet Running, DKI DPRD: People Are Not Ready

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government had a discourse to implement a policy to limit the occupancy period of simple rented flats (rusunawa) in Jakarta. However, until now the regulation has not been implemented.

Member of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Ghozi Zulazmi, revealed that the reason this policy has not been implemented is because of the condition of the people who are not ready to move.

In fact, the DKI Provincial Government provides flats with affordable rental prices so that residents can buy houses after saving a few years while living in flats. However, the fact is that many people have not been able to do this.

"Not ready yet, yes, the people there. Many people in the Rusunawa have not been able to carry out the caretaker housing," said Ghozi at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Friday, September 12.

Moreover, many people live in flats because they have been relocated by the DKI Provincial Government from their previous residence. Therefore, they did not want to live in the flats themselves from the start.

"If the program community must pay attention to the government, they should not be suddenly expelled or restricted," said Ghozi.

Therefore, Ghozi encouraged the DKI Provincial Government to finalize the legal basis first before implementing a policy to limit the occupancy period of flats in Jakarta.

The legal basis in question is Governor Regulation (Pergub) Number 111 of 2014 concerning the Mechanism of Rusunawa Occupancy. Currently, the DKI Provincial Government is still finalizing the draft revision of the governor's regulation.

"We want several governors of the governor's regulation on housing to be evaluated. Several times during an audience with the governor, our faction said that several governors must evaluate maybe they are not related or there are differences in conditions with those currently present," said the member of the PKS faction of the DKI DPRD.

For information, the DKI Provincial Government plans to limit the occupancy period of the residents of the flats with a general category of 6 years and the residents of the terporgram category are limited to 10 years.

DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary (Sekda) Marullah Matali revealed the origin of the plan to limit the occupancy period of simple rented flats (rusunawa) in Jakarta. Marullah emphasized that he did not intend to expel residents from the flats belonging to the DKI Provincial Government.

From the start, the DKI Provincial Government built a flat to facilitate Jakarta residents who do not have a house to be able to live in rental houses with various supporting facilities provided.

"Actually, we know that they are just rentals. In other places they can also rent. But the profit is that the rental flats provided by the provincial government are more economical than those rented in any house," said Marullah at DKI City Hall, some time ago.

With the low cost of rusunawa levies due to subsidized APBD, the DKI Provincial Government hopes that the residents of the Rusunawa will have the opportunity to save to buy a house and no longer rent a place to live.

When in the next few years the residents of the flats leave the flats, the DKI Provincial Government can again facilitate other Jakarta residents to inhabit the Rusunawa from the available units.

"So it's not to expel the truth. Their essence can feel a more prosperous life like Jakartans who already feel welfare in other places," explained Marullah.