Indonesia will extend its self-help housing renovation program to every district and city for the first time in 2026, Housing and Settlement Areas Minister Maruarar Sirait said on Thursday.
Maruarar said 224 districts and cities will miss out on allocations in 2025, including 22 that have gone five years without receiving assistance through the Self-Help Housing Stimulus (BSPS) program.
Starting next year, the ministry will use official indicators from Statistics Indonesia (BPS) to determine priority areas, covering poverty rates, poverty headcount, Gini ratio, poverty depth index, number of disadvantaged villages, and the share of low-income households living in uninhabitable homes.
“With a data-driven approach and a commitment to equity, BSPS will be more accurate and deliver real benefits for families across Indonesia,” Maruarar said.
The ministry will also push two flagship housing initiatives in 2026: the BSPS renovation scheme and the construction of subsidized homes for low-income households.
The BSPS program is considered critical to addressing 26 million uninhabitable homes nationwide, while the subsidized housing initiative targets 500,000 units supported by Sejahtera mortgage loans under the Housing Financing Liquidity Facility (FLPP) to expand affordable homeownership.
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