Housing development

Housing development

From Pelita

Housing developers have recently overwhelmed us with their offers of well-located houses in Greater Jakarta. There is a similarity in their advertisements which extol a natural environment with a plantationlike ambience and a congenial climate as if on mountain slopes.

It is all very well to provide those amenities to prospective customers who aspire to enjoy the clean and cool air of the mountains.

The problem is, does such development not encroach upon the existing order of the environment? I would suggest to the authorities that they give the necessary guidance to developers to participate in conservation by further developing plantation and agriculture land in support of the pristine condition of the environment. Lakes should also be maintained as part of the efforts to conserve the environment and not be eliminated in the interests of developing residential areas.

MOHAMMAD ANDITA

Jakarta