Public Exempted from BPHTB if Accessing Three Million Houses Programme

Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has exempted BPHTB (Acquisition Duty on Land and Buildings) for low-income communities (MBR) who access the Three Million Houses programme. The Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements (PKP) is collaborating with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Public Works to realise this BPHTB exemption. In addition, the government is waiving building permit fees (PBG). “What is the purpose? To make the prices cheap. After that, the credit provided by banks will also be cheap, so developers will compete to build houses. That’s roughly the concept,” Tito said, quoted from Kompas.com on Tuesday (5/5/2026). Therefore, the government mandates that all parties involved in the programme, especially developers, must consider house construction prices to ensure affordability. “To accelerate readiness to own a house or a decent home, the Ministry of PKP has made many breakthroughs, including making the house prices cheaper,” Tito stated. One of them relates to developers’ land that suddenly enters the map of Protected Paddy Fields (LSD) and Basic Paddy Land (LBS). “This includes how the LSD and LBS maps, which have so far led developers who have already bought land and invested, in fact cannot be worked on,” explained Junaidi on Monday (4/5/2026). “Extraordinary energy. So far, friends have been anxious about how the programme is hampered, investments are hampered, and it will disrupt housing production,” explained Ara. According to Ara, Apersi is not just an organisation but is actively contributing to fighting for the people’s fate in the Three Million Houses programme.