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Jakarta's next year budget

Nearly 40% of Jakarta’s $3.1-billion budget for 2011 will be put toward basic-needs, such as new public housing and rehabilitation of slum areas, officials said November 8 when releasing next year’s budget figures.
 
The administration said it would use $506 million to build 1,150 apartment units for riverside residents who will be evicted ahead of a World Bank-funded river dredging project next year.
 
Governor Fauzi Bowo highlighted the need not only for more units, but more “habitable” housing, a reference to the difficulty the city has had relocating residents from their homes in the past.
 
In the past two years the city has built 24 low-cost apartment blocks, most of which have been reserved for city civil servants. Bowo said the units allotted for in next year’s budget would be set aside for squatters and slum residents, but still Jakarta suffers from a massive housing shortfall.
 
Officials say urban development in 2011-12 will also focus on slum rehabilitation, though a specific blueprint has not been laid out. Disputes over land ownership have previously prevented widespread slum overhauls, as have city administrators’ reluctance to hand over too much responsibility to neighborhood heads and other community leaders capable to assessing local needs.
 
Source: www.thejakartaglobe.com