Cheap housing to be included at Indah Kapuk
Cheap housing to be included at Indah Kapuk
JAKARTA (JP): PT Mandara Permai, the company developing the posh Pantai Indah Kapuk housing project in West Jakarta, plans to include low-cost apartments as part of its housing complex in a bid to meet regulations set by the city administration.
Assistant for City Secretary Prawoto S. Danoemihardjo told reporters yesterday that the number of low-cost units will be about 3,000.
Gubernatorial Decree No. 540/1990 stipulates that developers are required to build neighborhood and public facilities, including low-cost apartments, in order to qualify for the land appropriation permit issued by the city administration.
Prawoto explained that construction of the apartments was previously expected to start on Monday, but was canceled because approval of its block design had not yet been signed by the city planning office. Moreover, the building permit for the facilities has still not been issued by the city supervision office, he said.
"As soon as the administration's requirements are fulfilled, the construction will start," he added.
PT Mandara Permai launched a land reclamation program in 1992 for their real estate project, which is located to the north of the Sedyatmo toll road linking West Jakarta and the Soekarno- Hatta airport.
"This is the first low-cost apartment complex to be built by a developer inside its real estate complex," he said, adding that most developers usually build low cost apartments far away from their projects so as not to affect the marketing of their houses, which are exclusively designed for wealthy people.
"Other developers also tend to build low-cost apartments on land owned by the city administration and later hand over the buildings as city property," Prawoto said.
The developers that build low-cost apartments in other locations include PT Kuningan Persada, developer of an elite apartment project in the Kuningan area, South Jakarta. Its low- cost apartment complex is located on Jl. Penjernihan, Central Jakarta.
PT Mandara Permai's low-cost apartments will remain in possession of the developers, but their marketing will be handled by the city administration.
"Because the apartments are intended for low income people, the city administration will set a price they can afford," he said.
This scheme, Prawoto said, is in line with Decree No.540, which stipulates that developers must now build the public facilities inside their real estate complexes.
"By providing houses in the complex, the low income people, including security officers, drivers and servants, no longer have to spend additional money to travel to their work places, thereby helping reduce several problems, mainly transportation and traffic jams," he said. (yns)