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Govt promises housing for low earners in Nusantara
In Jakarta and other major cities, it is a general knowledge that housing development has largely favored high-income earners, leading to supply backlogs for low-income earners.
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This aerial view shows Indonesia's future Presidential Palace on July 11, 2024, in the Nusantara Capital City (IKN), in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan. The new city is scheduled to begin operating as the country's new political center on August 17, 2024, during Indonesia's 79th Independence Day. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (AFP/Stringer)
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he Public Works and Housing Ministry has assured that there will be subsidized housing for lower middle-income earners in the Nusantara Capital City (IKN).
Ministry spokesperson Endra S. Atmawidjaja said on Wednesday that affordable housing in the future new capital city would be open to the general public instead of just civil servants, as reported by detik.com.
He said this is in line with the 2011 law on Housing and Settlement that mandates housing development for low-income earners must be carried out alongside that of high-income earners.
In Jakarta and other major cities, it is a general knowledge that housing development has largely favored high-income earners, leading to supply backlogs for low-income earners.
Read also: Affordable housing pushed further out of city centers
Even though affordable housing exists, it is often located far from city centers such as the outskirts of Jakarta or simply in satellite cities within the Greater Jakarta metropolitan area.
This leads to ballooning transportation costs and a lengthy commuting time, as public transit has not been developed well in city outskirts or surrounding satellite cities.
