Jakarta, June 14 (Antara) - The government is doing its best to provide
houses for poor families which account for about 12 percent of the
country's about 240 million population.
Indonesia now needs to provide some 15 millions of houses for poor
families to meet their need for adequate shelters. But due to limited
funds, the government is still planning to meet the need in stage.
Public
Housing Minister Djan Faridz said recently that his ministry was
planning to build one million units of houses for low-income people
until 2014.
"Last
year we have a budget allocation for the construction of 250 thousand
houses. This year we also get the same amount of allocation. If we have a
budget for 500 thousand houses next year, we will have achieved one
million houses by 2014," Djan Faridz said.
On Thursday, the public housing minister met the House of
Representatives to propose a budget of Rp19.9 trillion for 2014 as there
was a shortage of Rp15.6 trillion as compared to its 2014 work plan
which was set at Rp4.2 trillion.
As housing is a basic need, some quarters have urged the government to
interfere in solving the problem of shortage of housing for lower income
people.
"The
government should interfere in providing housing for the people like
what is done by the Singapore government," Associate Director Ray White
Indonesia Erwin Karya said on Tuesday this week.
According
to Jamil Ansari, a deputy for self-reliant housing development of the
Ministry of Public Housing, the government acknowledged that was
responsible for providing houses for lower income people.
"House
is a basic need and the state has the constitutional responsibility to
meet the people's need for adequate houses," Jamil Ansari said in a
discussion on the diversion of fuel oil subsidy to housing program for
poor families on Thursday
Jamil said that for those who already
earn a monthly income of over the provincial minimum wage but were still
categorized as lower-income people, the government would provide a
facility such as through the Housing Financing Liquidity Facility (FLPP)
program.
People
whose income is quite low or below the regional minimum wage, the state
will assist them, among others, by providing them with a stimulant
financing assistance worth about 60 to 70 percent of the house
construction cost.
"With
the 60-70 percent stimulant assistance, poor families are expected to
be able to build houses that would meet the minimal criteria of an
adequate house," Jamil said.
The
stimulant assistance is given to recipients of the government¿s
self-reliant housing development program. Jamil added that poor families
who had obtained assistance must be assured of the legality of their
houses ownership.
The government in this case must assure that each citizen owns an
adequate house with clear legal status. It should not happen that a
citizen is living in a house whose legal status is not clear.
Besides, the government, as part of the assistance program, is also
carrying out a house repair program for the poor. Public Housing
Minister Djan Faridz said his ministry allocated Rp7.5 million for the
construction of a house for each of poor families.
Minister Faridz said the house repair or building program was called
'Rumah Swadaya' (people's self-reliant housing) program. With the
program poor families were expected to have adequate houses.
The amount of the allocated funds for this program is relatively small
but, based on the name of the program (self-reliant), the people are
expected to cooperate in the construction of their houses.
"We hope they will construct their houses through a mutual cooperation
system so that they would no longer need additional budget for hiring
workers. Local officials are expected to be active in organizing
residents in building their houses so that the small funds are expected
to be enough," Minister Faridz said.
In
addiotion, according to Erwin Karya, the government should also
interfere in providing housing for the people like what is done by the
Singapore government. Even though the price of houses, particularly in a
number of points such as in Orchard Road, has sky-rocketed, yet the
Singapore government interfered.
He said that the government actually already had a good program to
build 1,000 towers of modest flats, but this program was no longer
heard. These towers could serve as a solution to the housing problem for
middle-and-lower class people.
Unfortunately, many houses built by developers and designed for
lower-income people fall on the hands of middle and upper classes of
people who bought them for investment.
Vice President Boediono said on Thursday that many housing subsidies
provided by the government in various forms of incentives for developers
were still off targets because many houses developed with the facility
were not enjoyed by poor families but by middle income people.
"The government has provided various forms of assistance by extending
subsidies but they are not received by the correct people," the Vice
President said told a national working meeting of the Indonesian Housing
and Resettlement Developers Association (Apersi).
The Vice President said that many families were now entering the middle
class group of people and purchased houses which should be allocated to
the needy. They purchased the houses not for residing but for
investment.
"They think it would be promising for them to buy houses as investment
rather than putting their saving on deposit," the Vice President said.
This caused subsidies missed the target.
Boediono cited as example, the flat houses developed by the Jakarta
regional government. The government's efforts to build flat houses
turned out to be bought by other people than those who really needed
them.
"There are owners who sell or rent their flats to other people," said Boediono.***4***
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