"Currently, the ministry and our partners are preparing a pilot project for the Ritta Program in Prabumulih City, South Sumatra, for the informal sector," the ministry's director of public and commercial housing of the Directorate General of Housing, Fitrah Nur, said in Jakarta, Wednesday.
He said the ministry continues to collaborate with partners to implement housing development programs for the community and that contributions and support from various sectors, both government and private, are direly needed.
For the Ritta program, the ministry had gathered support from the local government for land, electricity, and water facilities; housing finance development supported by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from PT. SMF, gas supply from Pertamina, and road construction work by the provincial government.
"The targeted recipients of the Ritta Program assistance are people, who work in the informal sector in Prabumulih City, such as scavengers and street sweepers. Later, the local government will collect data on potential recipients of the housing assistance," Nur said.
He pointed out that through the Ritta Program, the informal sector community, such as scavengers and street sweepers, will be able to have a type 18 earthquake-resistant house, with a plot area of 72 square meters.
For the Ritta Program, the Prabumulih city government will prepare two hectares of land for the construction of around 100 earthquake-resistant houses. The houses will be built using the Simple Healthy Instant House (Risha) technology developed by the Ministry of PUPR, he said.
"The Prabumulih regional government has prepared two hectares of land for 100 housing units. Meanwhile, the PUPR Ministry has prepared a site plan and construction for the Risha earthquake-resistant house, namely the type-18 house, which can be further developed, with a plot area of 6 x 12 meters or 72 square meters," he added.
To support the livelihoods of people working as scavengers, he said the ministry will collaborate with the Cipta Karya Directorate to facilitate them with plastic cutter machines. Thus, their collected plastics can be processed into plastic pellets that can be sold at competitive prices.
"We hope that the Ritta Program can run smoothly in the field and be duplicated by other local governments to improve people's welfare," he said.
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