Low-cost apartments for 144 families

TANGERANG: Low-cost apartments will be built for the Tangerang municipality administration to rent out to accommodate people who live in flood-prone areas.

Financed by the Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastucture, the apartments in Manis Jaya subdistrict, Jatiwangi, will be completed in February.

"At least 144 families living in flood-prone areas can move into the apartments in March," Soewardjono, the municipality's chief of housing technical planning said on Wednesday.

The project is worth Rp 8.6 billion (about US$1 million).

So far, no one has registered with the administration to be tenants.

The rent per apartment will be between Rp 125,000 and Rp 150,000 per month. -- JP