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View all search resultsIronically, an estimated 60 percent of Jakarta's civil servants are unable to afford to live in the city they serve. They cannot even vote for the governor for which they work. They are pushed, as with countless others, by market forces to live on the fringes: Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java and Tangerang in Banten. This results in a disastrous urban sprawl that gobbles up otherwise productive agricultural land and energy-draining commutes.
The Jakarta administration’s decision to increase the taxable value of property (NJOP) in some areas of the city can lead to a shift in the use of land--from residential areas to business areas, according to an urban expert.
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