Houses for retired officers

Houses for retired officers

MANADO, North Sulawesi: A great number of retired servicemen
or their widows do not have houses of their own, a spokesman of
the local chapter of the Indonesian Retired Armed Forces
Servicemen said.

W.E.R. Mokoagow said on Friday that only 600 of the chapter's
11,000 members have been able to buy houses through a housing
loan program provided by the Ministry of Security and Defense.

He was quoted by Antara as saying that 490 houses are
currently being constructed in the regencies of Manado and
Minahasa for the retired servicemen.

Mokoagow, who is also chairman of the local chapter of the
Armed Forces Central Cooperative, said the cooperative has built
55 houses in the Bitung mayoralty. (imn)