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Apartments not ready for Pasar Ikan evictees
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Residents of Pasar Ikan in North Jakarta stage a protest on Monday when their houses were demolished by the Jakarta city administration. Later, they were offered relocation to low-cost apartments. (thejakartapost.com/Callistasia Anggun Wijaya)
W
hile the houses of Pasar Ikan residents in North Jakarta have already been demolished, few of the low-cost apartments that were supposed to have been prepared for them are ready.
The head of the Rawa Bebek rusanawa (low-cost apartment building) in North Jakarta, Ani Suryani, said that as of Monday, while 204 Pasar Ikan families had been sent there, only 42 single-occupancy apartments with no bedrooms or kitchens were available.
"We hope the construction of apartments for families will finish by December so that we can move them there," Ani told thejakartapost.com, adding that each family would be required to pay a rental fee of Rp 300,000 (US$ 23) per month.
The rental fees of these apartments are more expensive than other low-cost apartments because the Rawa Bebek rusanawa is equipped with elevators.
Meanwhile, the head of the Marunda rusunawa in North Jakarta, Suharyanti, said 77 evictees from Pasar Ikan have moved into apartments there. Unlike in Rawa Bebek, there are still 108 more units available.
The rental fees are also cheaper, namely between Rp 120,000 and Rp 150,000 per month, Suharyanti added.
In both the Rawa Bebek and Marunda apartments, their respective managements would allow the new occupants to conduct businesses on the first floor of the buildings.
The city administration said there were 321 Pasar Ikan families who had registered for places in the Rawa Bebek and Marunda low-cost apartments after their houses were destroyed.
The secretary of the Penjaringan subdistrict in North Jakarta, M. Andri, said evictees who wanted to register to live in low-cost apartments needed to show certain documents, like identity cards, family cards, property tax bills and electricity bills.
Meanwhile, the head of Jakarta Police's operations division, Sr. Comr. Martuani Sormin, said the demolition of 569 illegal buildings took place smoothly, although had initially faced opposition from residents.
"We offered them two options: accepting relocation to low-cost apartments or not," Martuani said during press conference, adding that the residents could file lawsuits with the Jakarta Administrative Court if they could not accept their evictions. (bbn)
