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Residents in limbo over expired permit for first low-cost apartments
All of Tanah Abang’s 960 apartments in its 60 blocks of four-story buildings were packed. However, the HGB permit expired in 2012 and the residents could not extend it.
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A 'warung' (small store) in the middle of the Petamburan subsidized apartment complex in Central Jakarta. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
T
hree decades after the Tanah Abang low-cost apartment block in Central Jakarta was inaugurated by then-president Soeharto and the residents owned full rights to the properties in which they lived, they now face uncertainty about the plot of land where their apartments stand.
In the early 1980s, after procuring the 4-hectare plot of land on Jl. KH Mas Mansyur, the government granted a right-to-manage (HPL) permit to state-owned developer Perum Perumnas, which built the country’s first low-cost apartments.
When the construction was completed, hundreds of young families flocked and bought apartments there. Each of them was given a right-to-use (HGB) permit.
All of Tanah Abang’s 960 apartments in its 60 blocks of four-story buildings were packed. They were divided into two community units, RW 10 and RW 11, and managed by the tenants and owners association (P3SRS).
However, the HGB permit expired in 2012 and the residents could not extend it.
"We prepared all the documents required to extend the permit in 2010, but Perumnas did not respond at all," said Sumarno, head of Tanah Abang P3SRS (P3SRS-TA).
“They returned to us in 2012 saying we had already passed the deadline,” he added.
