JAKARTA - The Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan provided relief from rental costs for low-income people (MBR) who live in rented flats (rusunawa) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This levy tariff reduction policy is regulated in DKI Governor Regulation Number 61 of 2020 concerning Providing Relief for Regional Levies and / or Abolition of Administrative Sanctions for Retribution Obligators Affected by the COVID-19 National Disaster.
Acting Head (Plt) Head of the DKI Jakarta Public Housing and Settlement Service, Sarjoko, said that the residents of the flat were exempted from rental fees starting April 13 until the central government ended the determination of COVID-19 as a national disaster.
However, he said, the free flat rental does not include other costs, such as water and electricity usage bills.
"This relief is for rental levies for residential and business units. Incentives are given until the end of Presidential Decree No. 12/2020 concerning the determination of the natural disaster for the spread of COVID-19 as a national disaster," Sarjoko said when contacted, Wednesday, July 8.
The reason for the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to provide an exemption from rental flat fees is to reduce the cost of living for residents due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has weakened purchasing power due to PSBB regulations. As a result, many residents are in arrears for rusunawa rent.
"With the governor's regulation, the rental burden during the national disaster of COVID-19 has become an incentive for apartment residents to survive," he said.
Based on data held by the Jakarta Housing and Community Settlements Agency, the total rental fee arrears until June 29 amounted to Rp78.8 billion. The details are in arrears for residential units of IDR71.2 billion from 11,683 residents and arrears for business units of IDR3.6 billion from 1,384 units.
"Later, the amount of arrears will be corrected again by reducing the amount of arrears in the period that was released.
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