Government to Begin 'Gentengisasi' Roofing Programme for 400,000 Homes This Year
Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas Maruarar Sirait said the government will begin massively implementing a programme to replace house roofs with tiles, or ‘tiling’, this year. The programme, initiated by President Prabowo Subianto, will be carried out alongside the house renovation programme targeting 400,000 units across Indonesia.
“The tiling programme will be executed immediately on a massive scale through the house renovation programme covering 400,000 houses across Indonesia,” Maruarar said after a coordination meeting with Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian and Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti at the Home Affairs Ministry office in Central Jakarta on Friday, 10 July 2026.
Maruarar said the house renovation programme is intended for low-income communities. The determination of aid recipients will refer to BPS data collected down to the regional level.
According to him, the government has set a number of priority groups for the assistance, including 15,000 houses in border areas. In addition, 8,000 houses for residents affected by tuberculosis, and 10,000 houses for families of Sekolah Rakyat students.
He explained that the tiling and house renovation programmes will use a more open procurement mechanism through a ‘people’s tender’ scheme. Under this scheme, officers together with beneficiaries will first compile the building material requirements.
After that, he said, a number of building supply stores will be invited to submit price offers openly so that the public can directly monitor the procurement process. Maruarar said this mechanism can improve budget efficiency while preventing corrupt practices.
“We want to educate the people to ensure there is no corruption in the field. This is being done in villages across Indonesia,” he said.
Maruarar said the Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas has coordinated with the Supreme Audit Agency to ensure the programme’s governance complies with regulations. In addition, the government has also relaxed a number of requirements so that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can be involved as building material suppliers.
One of the policies changed is the requirement for Indonesian National Standard (SNI) certification. According to Maruarar, the government no longer requires all MSME products supplied under the programme to have SNI certification.
“The requirement was initially for us to use SNI, but we lowered it because not all MSMEs meet that. They can use reliability certification from the Ceramics Centre instead,” Maruarar said.