Shelter was Man's basic
need, and everyone dreams of a decent home to live in. However, not all people
could realize their dream, especially those of the low-income group. To solve
the problem, the Ministry of People's Housing [Kemenpera] was striving hard to
spur on building of houses in all of Indonesia through the Self Help House
Renovation Stimulation Plan [BPPS] for the low income group through Social Aid
Plan [Bansos] and Rolling Fund.
Deputy Head of the Self
Help Housing Program Dept. Ministry of People's Housing. Ministry of People's
Housing Jamil Ansari stated in Jakarta on Friday [11/4] that the action was to
make total overhaul of degraded houses to reduce the number of inadequate
homes which now had come to 7.9 million units.
Through 2006 - 2011 he had
managed building of 108,500 houses. Since 2012 he said, the activities had
been increasing significantly. Hence by end of 2014 renovation of inadequate
houses was posted at 858,000 units or by end of 2014 the remaining unattended
houses was 7.1 million.
The House Renovation Aid
process in BSPS Program was exercised through transfer of money to recipient’s
account, not through related institutions. The amount of aid was not the same,
i.e. around Rp.2.5 million to Rp.3.5 million of the supposedly Rp.7.5 million.
If the aided house's floor was earth and the roof was made of dry leaves, and
the walls were of woven bamboo, the subject would receive aid of Rp7.5 million
through bank transfer, not through any official. The renovation process itself
was done by way of traditional villagers' joint - community effort.
The Ministry of People's
Housing had asked provincial heads all over Indonesia to support this PSPS
Total House Renovation Plan for the marginal people in the respective regions.
The point was that one of the pro-people programs which was premium project of
the Ministry was beneficial for the people in upgrading their quality of
dwelling place to be live worthy. According to Jamil, the role of Governors in
guiding and supervising the project was indispensable.
Jamil stated that the
Ministry was striving hard to increase the amount of fund in housing project,
so the aid extended by the Central Government to Provincial Government could be
promoted. The same was with house procurement for Civil Servants in the regions
by the local Government was needed as not all civil servants, especially those
of lower rank had the capacity to build houses. The local governments could
benefit from the Aid Program facilities at the Ministry to accelerate house
building for civil servants. Through mortgage [KPR] facilities and liquidity
facilities on soft loan basis [KPR FLPP] and infra structure building like
road, water supply, electricity supply and drainage system, it was expected
that the houses to be owned by civil servants would be up to the standard and
be affordable.
He disclosed that through
2005 - 2013 the Government had built 24,789 Rusunawa flats or 203 twin blocks
spread out in 33 provinces and 130 regencies/cities with total budget of Rp.3.43
trillion. Besides, through the Ministry of Public Works over the same period
the Government had built 39,966 units of Rusunawa flats, so the total number of
Rusunawa built by the Government was 64,755 units which were allocated for
employees, university students, religious school students , the army and the
police personnel. (SS)
Business New - April 14, 2014
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