Developers want to build fewer low-cost homes<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Private developers urged the municipality
\nyesterday to reduce the percentage of land they must set aside
\nfor low-cost apartments from 20 percent to five percent,
\ncouncilors said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Saud Rachman and Lukman F. Mokoginta, members of the council's
\nCommission D for development affairs, said the developers, who
\nwere members the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Real Estate
\nAssociation, made the request in a meeting with the commission
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
"The developers said that they could not afford to build the
\ncheap apartments as stipulated in gubernatorial decree No.
\n540\/1990," Saud, of the United Development Party, faction said.<\/p>\n
The decree was issued to provide adequate housing for the poor
\nand to help eliminate slum areas.<\/p>\n
Saud said that in the meeting the developers asked the
\ncouncilors to forward their request to administration officials.<\/p>\n
"The developers' request to reduce their obligation to only
\nfive percent doesn't make any sense," Saud said.<\/p>\n
He said that of the 114 developers in the city, many failed to
\nmeet the obligation.<\/p>\n
"This request shows that the developers are not supporting the
\nadministration's program to provide decent housing for street
\ndwellers. All they can think of is how to gain profit," Saud
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
If the administration approved the request, he feared that the
\nadministration's target to build around 280,000 apartments in the
\nnext 10 years could not be reached.<\/p>\n
In the last two years the municipality has built only 3,150
\nlow-cost apartments a year because of a lack of money. This is
\nfar below the demand for cheap apartments, which exceeds 10,500
\nhomes a year.<\/p>\n
Lukman said the developers promised to submit a written
\nproposal regarding the reduction.<\/p>\n
"We can't just accept the developers' proposal and present it
\nto the municipality's officials before analyzing it ourselves,"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
"They (developers) said that their calculations were
\nrealistic. But, that's their opinion. We should analyze it first
\nbefore making any decision," Lukman said.<\/p>\n
The councilors, he said, supported the gubernatorial decree,
\nwhich urged developers to build low-cost apartments.<\/p>\n
"We even consider that the decree should be made into a
\nprovincial regulation," Lukman said.<\/p>\n
Data from the city housing agency shows that annual demand for
\nhousing in Jakarta exceeds 70,000 homes.<\/p>\n
Due to a land shortage, housing officials say 30 percent -- or
\nabout 23,000 homes -- should be in the form of vertical housing.<\/p>\n
Several low-cost apartments have already been built in Tebet,
\nSouth Jakarta, Bendungan Hilir in Central Jakarta and Penjaringan
\nin West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
So far, 50 percent of vertical housing is provided by private
\ndevelopers, but most of this is for middle and upper-income
\ngroups.<\/p>\n
The city has so far built 12,356 units of low-cost apartments
\nfor slum area residents. (ste)<\/p>",
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