Koja people will get low cost apartments
Koja people will get low cost apartments
JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Real
Estate Association (REI DKI) announced yesterday that a joint-
venture company will build 5,000 low cost apartments in
Cilincing, North Jakarta, for Koja residents who must move to
make way for the development of a container terminal.
The apartments will be jointly built by PT Pelindo, a state-
owned seaport company, and PT Nayaka Realtindo Cakra Sarana
Persada, a private developer.
"This is our pilot project to provide proper houses for low
income bracket people in the city," Nugroho Suksmanto, chairman
of REI DKI, announced.
He explained that the project, which will consist of 25
towers, will be built on 10 hectares of plot of land owned by PT
Pelindo. Each tower will have five floors with the ground floors
to be used as a shopping center.
"There will be three sizes of apartments -- the 21, 27 and 36
square-meter units and the price will range from Rp 12 million
(US$5,500) to Rp 13 million per unit," Suksmanto said, adding
that priority to live in the apartment will be given to relocate
the residents of North Koja.
A total of 9,037 families who resided on 90 hectares of land
in North Koja will give up their land to PT Pelindo.
Suksmanto, however, did not rule out the possibility of
outsiders buying the apartments. "We will also give non-Koja
residents a chance to buy the apartments," he said.
Next year
When asked when the project, which will begin soon, will be
finished, Suksmanto said that it will be finished next year. "We
will start the project as soon as possible and hopefully the
occupants can move in next July or August," Suksmanto said.
He also explained that REI DKI plans to build another 5,000
low-cost apartments as part of its long-term plan.
"The projects will be built in several locations," Suksmanto
said.
Suksmanto also promised that he would encourage members of REI
DKI to implement a government regulation requiring property
developers to build six low cost houses and three standard houses
for each luxury house built.
"This pattern should be implemented by every member of the
organization in order to meet the housing demands of low-income
people," Suksmanto said.
When asked about the social and public facilities that should
be provided by housing developers in the housing complexes they
build, Suksmanto said that the organization will penalize its
members who violate the regulation.
"We can suspend or discharge them from our organization,"
Suksmanto explained.
He said that REI DKI has directed its sub-offices in the
city's five mayoralties to make an inventory of property
developers who have fulfilled their obligations to build social
and public facilities. (yns)