The DPRD Advises The DKI Provincial Government To Reduce Grant Funds For The Allocation Of Building 4 Floors For Incapable Residents

Sidarapat kerja Komisi D bersama jajaran Pemprov DKI/Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Ida Mahcepat responded to the policy of the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan which allowed residents to build up to 4 floors of residential houses in Jakarta. According to Ida, if Anies wants to facilitate community housing needs by increasing the number of floors of residential houses that are allowed to be built, then there needs to be assistance provided. The assistance referred to by Ida is the budget allocation to help the lower middle class so that they can build a 4-story house. The allocation can be taken from a reduction in grant funds, which is usually disbursed by the DKI Provincial Government to a number of agencies to foundations every year. This was conveyed by Ida in a working meeting of Commission D with the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government which discussed the detailed spatial plan (RDTR) of DKI Jakarta Province. "We both know that our grants are extraordinary every year, trillions. Why don't we think about donating it to people with small houses on small land whose conditions are no longer suitable to be inhabited. Why don't we just change our grants? We give it to people who can't afford 4 floors," said Ida, Wednesday, September 28. "It means that granting grants to other agencies needs to be reduced, we give them to our residents," he continued. Currently, Ida views that the construction of a 4-story house in the middle of an increasingly limited land can only be carried out by the upper middle class. So, if there is no assistance for the construction of a 4-story house, then the purpose of the DKI Provincial Government to meet the needs of housing, especially for the lower middle class residents, will not be implemented. "I think (the 4-story house) is for the upper middle. Indeed, who has the ability to build four floors? Yes, middle to upper level. If it's middle to lower, live in densely populated and build a 4-story house with plywood, maybe not? It's impossible," explained Ida. 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.