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279 Kalijodo households have been relocated to low-cost apartments
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City administration public order officers monitor the demolition of buildings at Kalijodo in Jakarta on Monday. The city administration aims to build an interactive tourist park in lieu of the capital's infamous former red-light district. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)
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s many as 279 Kalijodo households have been relocated from the former red-light district to two separate low-cost apartment complexes in Jakarta, prepared by the Jakarta city administration just days prior to knocking down all of their houses.
As many as 199 former Kalijodo resident families have been relocated to the Marunda in North Jakarta, while 80 others have been sent to live in the Pulo Gebang low cost apartments in East Jakarta.
Former Kalijodo residents were allocated 265 low-cost apartments in Marunda and 86 in Pulo Gebang.
"We are now preparing new identity cards for the residents and schools for their children,” head of Pulo Gebang Housing Management Ageng Darmintono told thejakartapost.com on Tuesday.
The East Jakarta education agency will facilitate the transfer of children to public schools in East Jakarta, Ageng said, adding that the city social agency and the city administration would help the residents to find jobs based on their respective skills.
"We will provide a space for them to set up a business, most probably for culinary work as most of them have experience in that business," Ageng said.
The city administration is expected to provide them with space from which to establish a new business and involve private companies, in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), to help them with new jobs, Ageng added.
Meanwhile, head of Marunda Housing Management Suharyanti said that the apartment management had started to help new occupants comprehend apartment life. "We will inform them of their rights and obligations in the apartments,” she said, adding that the most important thing was that they learned the apartment code of conduct.
The rental fee for the Pulo Gebang is said to be Rp 281,000 (US$21.06) per month, while then rental fee for the Marunda low-cost apartments range from Rp 120,000 to Rp 180,000. (bbn)
