PDIP Sentile Anies Baswedan, Remembering Making Detailed Rules About Allowing Houses 4 Floor

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gembong Warsono, said that DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan needed to immediately make detailed rules regarding the rules for Jakarta residents who were allowed to build houses up to four floors.

In this more detailed regulation, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government must determine which areas are allowed and which are prohibited from building four-story houses.

"There needs to be adjustments. When Anies makes a policy of building a four-story house anywhere. That's the case. For example, the reserve area is not allowed. In cultural heritage there are other provisions," said Gembong when contacted, Saturday, September 24.

In addition, Gembong saw that the supply of piped clean water must also be served throughout the Jakarta area immediately. So, when the four-story houses built are large, groundwater use can be minimized as much as possible to reduce the impact of land subsidence.

"One of the priorities that must also be carried out by the provincial government is the issue of clean water networks, thereby reducing the use of ground water for residents of DKI Jakarta. So that we can inhibit land subsidence in DKI Jakarta," he explained.

As is known, DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan issued a new regulation granting permits to Jakarta residents to build houses up to four floors.

This is stated in Governor Regulation Number 31 of 2022 concerning Detailed Spatial Planning Plans for the Regional Planning of the Special Capital City Region of Jakarta.

"Our residents' houses are only allowed 1 floor, 2 floors. Now, residential houses will be allowed up to 4 floors in our households in Jakarta," Anies said in the socialization of Gubernatorial Regulation Number 31 of 2022 at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, September 21.

In the old rule, namely Regional Regulation Number 1 of 2014, residential houses are prohibited more than 3 floors. This is because more than three floors are only allowed at shop houses, guesthouses, and the like.

Seeing the development of the city of Jakarta so far, Anies said that the limit on the number of floors in residential houses in the old regulations limits the use of land in Jakarta, which has a high price.

Therefore, in the new rules, Anies said that allowing houses to live up to 4 floors is expected to encourage land optimization.

"This will have a sizeable impact. So, later Jakarta will not be flat, but the city can increase its population higher, it has a higher land value," said Anies.