16 developers to build simple houses in Maja
16 developers to build simple houses in Maja
JAKARTA (JP): Sixteen developers will build hundreds of
thousands of modest houses on about 4,200 hectares in Maja, a
poor district in West Java, a developer said over the weekend.
Eppi Pribudhi Soerawidjaja, a director of PT Bukitnusa Indah
Perkasa, one of the 16 developers, said the houses would be
initially marketed to Maja residents and those from neighboring
areas, including industrial workers in Balaraja, Tangerang, and
government officials in Rangkas Bitung.
"Thus far, we don't have plans to build middle-class houses in
the area," he said.
Maja district in Lebak regency has 21 villages. Eighteen of
them are extremely poor. It takes one and a half hours to go by
train from Tanah Abang, Jakarta, to Maja's station in Tenjo.
He said the 16 developers, including the state-owned Perumnas
housing firm, had formed a team to coordinate the housing
projects.
"They have appointed a consultant to design the infrastructure
linking all the housing projects in the area," he said.
PT Equator Group, PT Bukitnusa Indah Perkasa and PT Bambu
Kuning are leading the partnership.
"This partnership may be the first of its kind in the country.
What usually happens is that developers make their projects
without coordination even though their projects are nearby. As a
result, infrastructure in one housing complex seldom matches with
that in others," he said.
The site's name would be changed to Friendship Town of Maja,
he said.
Eppi said his firm had spent Rp 125 billion (US$52.9) building
11,200 modest houses at the 200-hectare Permata Kalimaya housing
complex.
He did not know how much the other developers would invest.
The planned houses will contain between 21 and 36 square
meters of floor space each, on sites between 60 and 90 square
meters. The houses are expected to cost between Rp 4.6 million
(US$1,949) and Rp 15 million each.
Eppi said PT Bambu Kuning, PT Armedian and some of the other
developers had started developing their projects and should
finish them in less than five years.
The sites are accessible by car from Tigaraksa, the future
capital of Tangerang regency. He said the government planned to
build roads connecting Tigaraksa, Tenjo and Maja. (jsk)