BPS: Home ownership backlog figures fall 12.39 percent

Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti stated that based on the March 2026 National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), the home ownership backlog and the uninhabitable housing backlog have decreased compared to the March 2025 Susenas. She explained that BPS presents Backlog 1, which is the home ownership backlog, or in other words, the percentage of households that do not own their own home. Backlog 2 is the condition where households occupy their own homes but these are unfit for habitation. “Based on the March 2026 Susenas, we have updated this backlog data. Backlog 1, which is the number and percentage of households that do not yet own a home, has decreased in percentage terms from 13 percent in March 2025 to 12.39 percent in March 2026,” said Amalia during the Release of the 2026 Housing Statistics Publication in Jakarta on Thursday. Consequently, the ownership backlog figure of 9.64 million households in March 2025 fell to 9.29 million households in March 2026. Furthermore, Backlog 2 in March 2026 reached 24.03 percent, or approximately 18.01 million households, a figure lower than the 25.33 percent, or approximately 18.77 million households, recorded in March 2025. “So both Backlog 1 and Backlog 2 have improved, or in numerical terms have decreased,” Amalia said. She explained that the Backlog 2 figure in 2026 appears twice as high as the Backlog 1 ownership figure. The high Backlog 2, she continued, indicates that ensuring equitable ownership of decent housing is a development priority, which aligns the Minister of Housing and Settlements with the BPS data. The Ministry of PKP is raising the target for Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) from 45,000 to 400,000 because the statistical data indicates this needs to be reduced more quickly. For information, the Ministry of Housing and Settlements (PKP) is collaborating with BPS to strengthen the governance of the 3 Million Homes Programme through the use of accurate, integrated, and fact-based data. Minister of PKP Maruarar Sirait asserted that housing policy must be built on a strong data foundation so that every government programme can be implemented in a targeted, effective, and accountable manner.