Jakarta Globe, SP/Deti Mega P. on 5:06 pm October 8, 2013
People walk across a yard inside the Pinus Elok low-cost apartment complex in East Jakarta on Sept. 30, 2013. (JG Photo/Safir Makki) |
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Governor Joko Widodo said on Tuesday that he wanted to install solar panels on
the 100 low-cost apartment towers that his administration planned to construct
next year.
“I think we
need to apply an environmentally friendly concept for next year’s low-cost
apartment construction,” Joko said on the sidelines of a visit to electronics
manufacturer Panasonic Gobel’s plant in East Jakarta. “So solar panels should
be installed on all the low-cost apartments that will be built next year.”
Joko said
he was aware that solar panels would boost the upfront construction cost, but
emphasized the savings that would be made over the longer term.
Yonathan
Pasodung, the head of Jakarta Housing and Building Agency, said last month the
Jakarta administration was ready to build 100 low-cost apartment towers next
year in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Housing.
Each tower
would consist of six floors and was planned to host 100 apartment units, with
construction cost set at between Rp 20 billion ($1.7 million) and Rp 22 billion
per tower.
The towers
will be built across five Jakarta municipalities and offered for rent at Rp
150,000 per month per unit to low-income residents.
“That will
include those displaced by [Jakarta's] river normalization project,” Yonathan
said, according to Indonesian news portal tempo.co.
He added
the towers would use precast concrete to make them more resistant to
earthquakes.
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