Low-cost apartments only for ID-holders<\/p>\n
Dewi Santoso, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Evicted fishermen who do not possess Jakarta ID cards are not
\nentitled to rent low-cost apartments in Muara Angke, North
\nJakarta, and are forced to return to their hometown in Indramayu
\nregency, West Java.<\/p>\n
Governor Sutiyoso said on Friday at the ground-breaking
\nceremony of the 1.6-hectare apartment project that the building,
\nconstructed by Taiwan-based charity Tzu Chi Foundation, would be
\nprovided only for Jakarta citizens.<\/p>\n
The foundation deputy chairman, Sugianto Kusuma, said that the
\nfoundation would only be responsible for the construction of 600
\napartments, worth Rp 40 billion (US$4.76 million) in the first
\nphase.<\/p>\n
\"The city administration is registering those eligible to rent
\nthe apartments. We will crosscheck the names of those who come to
\nrent the apartments with the city's list of residents,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The construction is scheduled to be completed in January next
\nyear but Sutiyoso demanded that the project be completed by the
\nend of this year.<\/p>\n
\"I insist that the apartments are finished by the end of this
\nyear so that the evictees will have a place to live,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The planned apartments will be in a five-story building. Each
\n36-square-meter unit will consist of two bedrooms, a bathroom, a
\nfamily room and a kitchen. All 600 units will be fully furnished
\nwith a wooden bed, a bunk-bed, wardrobes in each bedroom and a
\nplastic dining table with six plastic chairs.<\/p>\n
Each family will be required to pay Rp 90,000 (US$10.7) a
\nmonth plus utilities. The fee will cover the cost of garbage
\ncollection, security and maintenance of green spaces. It will
\nalso have communal facilities including a school, a hospital and
\na soccer field.<\/p>\n
The apartment is the second project of the foundation after
\nCinta Kasih apartments, a 1,100 apartment complex for the low-
\nincome bracket people in East Cengkareng, West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Over 1,000 fishermen's families living on the banks of Muara
\nAngke River were evicted from their homes last October. Most of
\nthem have lived there for more than 30 years but still could not
\nobtain Jakarta ID cards.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Indramayu Regent Irianto M.S. Syafiuddin said
\nlast December that his administration had allocated a four-
\nhectare plot of land at Song Beach to house approximately 220
\nfishermen's families evicted from Jakarta. Around Rp 30 billion
\nhad been allocated to build the houses. The project was scheduled
\nto be started in January and completed in March.<\/p>",
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