Astra to Build 1,000 Flats on KAI Land
PT Astra International Tbk (Astra International) will build 1,000 units of flats for low-income communities (MBR) and middle-income communities (MBT) on land owned by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) or KAI in the Jakarta Kota Station area, West Jakarta.
In a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday, Astra’s Chief of Corporate Affairs, Boy Kelana, stated that the integrated vertical housing is planned to be built on a 0.65-hectare plot or around 6,500 square metres, currently used as a parking area and KAI’s Griya Karya, specifically on Jalan Lada Dalam, Tanah Abang Subdistrict.
The flat construction will use a corporate social responsibility (CSR) scheme.
Each unit is designed to have two bedrooms and one bathroom with an area of about 35 square metres.
Boy said the project will be realised soon after the land’s legal status is confirmed as state-owned.
“It will be built soon after confirmation that the land is state-owned,” he said.
Nevertheless, the Head of the State-Owned Enterprises Regulatory Agency (BP BUMN), Donny Oskaria, assured that construction could start this year.
Meanwhile, Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP), Maruarar Sirait, stated that the flat project is built on KAI-owned land, with coordination involving several related parties.
“We are preparing the scheme for flats built from CSR financing. The land remains state-owned, then built by the private sector, and returned to the state,” said Minister Ara.
KAI President Director Bobby Rasyidin assessed that the project location has good potential for housing development.
The area near Jakarta Kota Station has rapid growth prospects in the next 10 to 15 years, making it one of the good forms of future housing.
The flat construction itself is part of the government’s efforts to realise the priority programme of building three million homes to reduce the national housing backlog.
The housing will be prioritised for low-income communities (MBR) and middle-income communities (MBT).
“Yes, commercially this is quite promising. Secondly, it is quite far from the railway tracks,” he said.