Apartment rent fee hike rejected

Apartment rent fee hike rejected

JAKARTA: Dozens of people living in city owned, mid- and low-
cost apartments in Pluit, North Jakarta visited the City Council
Wednesday to protest rent fee and service charge increases of 70
percent.

Monthly rent, ranging from Rp 270,000 and Rp 492,000, was
increased to between Rp 470,000 and Rp 848,500 per month, from
January.

Last week, security officers of PT Jakarta Propertindo, the
city-owned company which manages the apartments, clashed with
residents as the officers, backed by elements of the Army and
police, turned off electricity to several units owned by protest
leaders.

There are some 480 families or about 3,000 people living in
the apartments.

They expressed hope the legislators would ask PT Jakarta
Propertindo to revise the decision. --JP