Prabowo Questions Hashim on Sluggish Housing Programme Progress
President Prabowo Subianto has expressed concern that the realisation of the three-million-housing programme is proceeding too slowly. Prabowo questioned the programme’s progress with Housing Task Force Chairman Hashim Djojohadikusumo.
Hashim disclosed this during the launch of Housing Development in Support of the Three Million Homes Programme held in Jakarta today. The event also formally inaugurated vertical housing units managed by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero), forming part of the three-million-housing project initiated by Prabowo.
Hashim stated that he had met with his brother several weeks earlier. “I met the President and discussed this programme. He asked, ‘Why is the housing programme moving rather slowly? It seems slow,’” Hashim said, recounting Prabowo’s remarks during an online Zoom meeting on Monday, 16 March 2026.
Hashim subsequently explained to Prabowo that obstacles had arisen due to bureaucratic issues at the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning. “The Housing Ministry is a new ministry, only a year old, and so forth,” Hashim noted.
According to Hashim, Prabowo wants the three-million-housing programme to be implemented promptly. “But the President actually wants to move quickly,” he said.
Hashim also believes that vertical housing construction by PT KAI could accelerate the programme’s realisation rate. Moreover, in addition to Jakarta, construction is being carried out simultaneously in Bandung, Semarang, and Surabaya. “To be frank, I believe I can report to him that with the participation of the gentlemen and ladies from KAI, this will soon be realised,” Hashim said.
Furthermore, Hashim wishes to dispel the impression that only the middle and upper-class population can access adequate housing. The existence of the Housing Task Force, he stated, aims to accommodate home ownership for all segments of society, including low-income households.
With this in mind, Hashim claimed that the fifth principle of Pancasila is not merely an empty slogan. “So that the people truly benefit from the actual presence of Pancasila as the state’s ideology,” he said. “Not just talk without action. No action, talk only.”