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Jakarta apartment projects give residents hope for housing
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A man walks past a public cemetery on Feb. 20 with a building that is part of Jakarta's flagship housing project seen in the background. The apartment complex, Klapa Village in Pondok Kelapa, East Jakarta, is the first project launched under zero rupiah down payment housing scheme. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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any Jakarta residents struggle to get proper housing within the capital’s area of 662 square kilometers inhabited by 10 million people. Available land is scarce and property prices keep rising, making it challenging for people to purchase a place of their own.
Edi Saputra, who lives in Buaran, East Jakarta, was seeking information on Wednesday on the availability of units at the Klapa Village apartment complex build by the Jakarta administration. The building is the first under a flagship program to offer property with no down payment, with which the city aims to address its housing backlog of 302,319 units.
Edi said he wanted to move into the apartment building because of its accessible location and because it was near the houses of his relatives as well as the current house he rents.
The housing program gives him and his family hope to own a place to live after they have been renting for nearly 40 years, even though it is not the landed house of his dreams.
“I don’t own a house even though I have lived in Jakarta since 1979,” he told the Post in the apartment area.
He said he spent between Rp 450,000 (US$31.5) and Rp 1 million a month to rent a house in Buaran to live with his two children, an amount not very different from the credit payment offered by the housing payment scheme in Pondok Kelapa.
“But at least I will have my own house,” he said, adding that he sought a one-bedroom studio in that tower.
