Apartments for factory workers

Apartments for factory workers

JAKARTA (JP): The Tangerang administration is currently developing low cost apartments for factory workers at Alam Jaya village.

Tangerang Mayor Djakaria Machmud laid the cornerstone marking the start of the construction of the apartments on Saturday.

The Tangerang administration has allocated Rp 1.5 billion ($681,818) of its annual budget for the construction of the apartments being built on a two hectare plot of land.

An administration official said that development of the low cost apartments was a pilot project designed to accommodate thousands of people working in the some 1,000 factories in Tangerang and its vicinity.

The West Jakarta mayoralty is also planning to build low-cost apartments in Angke.

The mayoralty has appropriated a plot of land for the project.

West Jakarta vice mayor Syhahrin Lumbantoruan said the mayoralty would provide proper compensation to the people whose houses are affected by the project.

So far 42 of the 82 families living on the land appropriated for the project have accepted the compensation. The other 40 families have refused the compensation rate because they feel it is inadequate.

Some of the residents who have refused the compensation rate are demanding that the mayoralty set the rate at Rp 400,000 per square meter. The rate set by the mayoralty for land under state ownership is Rp 230,000 per square meter.

The mayoralty has set compensation rates on the basis of the status of the land. The rate for land under private ownership rights is Rp 517,000 per square meter.

Syahrin said the mayoralty gave area residents two weeks after accepting the compensation to demolish their houses. If they do not demolish the structures by themselves, officials of the mayoralty will do the job. (29)