Syaiful Huda: Balanced Housing Is More Than a Developer’s Administrative Obligation

PARLIAMENTARY, Bandung — Housing developers must fulfill their balanced-housing obligations by providing homes that are genuinely accessible to the public, especially low-income households (MBR). The government is therefore being urged to strengthen oversight and enforcement to ensure the policy goes beyond administrative compliance and makes a tangible contribution to expanding access to decent, affordable homes and reducing the national housing backlog.

Deputy Chair of Commission V of the House of Representatives (DPR RI) Syaiful Huda emphasized this during Commission V’s specific working visit to Summarecon Housing in Bandung, West Java, on Friday (13/11/2026). At the meeting, Summarecon representatives said that the obligation to build balanced housing, as stipulated in regulations, had not yet been fully implemented.

In response, Syaiful called on the government to take concrete action by coordinating with and overseeing all developers, particularly large-scale developers. He said balanced housing was not merely a recommendation but a legal obligation that must be fulfilled.

“Article 34 paragraph (2) of Law No. 1 of 2011 explicitly requires large-scale housing development by legal entities to provide balanced housing within a single area. This is not a recommendation but a mandatory requirement that all developers must meet,” Syaiful stressed.

He said that optimizing the balanced-housing policy could help expand the availability of homes for the public. Given the substantial national demand for housing, developers’ compliance with this obligation should be encouraged so that the potential to provide housing can be fully realized.

In his view, implementation of balanced housing should also be aligned with the government’s target of building three million homes. If consistently implemented, this developer obligation is expected to increase housing supply while expanding the public’s opportunities to obtain homes at affordable prices.

“We urge the government to enforce this law in earnest. Commission V of the DPR RI will also continue its oversight to ensure the balanced-housing obligation does not stop at administrative compliance, but is actually fulfilled through the construction of homes that people can access,” he said.

Syaiful noted that government oversight must take place from the planning stage through to construction. This is necessary to ensure that homes provided by developers not only meet numerical requirements but also offer affordable prices, quality construction, and a suitable living environment.

For him, the success of the balanced-housing policy cannot be measured solely by the number of housing units built. More important is the extent to which the policy gives low-income households access to decent, affordable homes.

At the institutional level, Syaiful also called for the Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP) to accelerate its efforts to fulfill its mandate for housing provision. He noted that changes to the allocation of institutional responsibilities must be accompanied by faster, more focused, and more effective action so that implementation of the balanced-housing obligation is not held back again.

“The government must act quickly. The developers’ obligation to provide housing must not become a rule that exists only on paper. Concrete action is needed, from planning and implementation through to ensuring that the homes built are genuinely affordable for the people,” he said.

He therefore hopes the government will strengthen cooperation with regional governments and developers to ensure the balanced-housing requirement is consistently implemented. This would enable the policy to serve as a tool for distributing housing development more evenly while narrowing disparities in access to homeownership.

“The aim is to ensure that developers throughout Indonesia truly fulfill this balanced-housing obligation. If we can make the most of this potential, we hope to reduce the national housing backlog and ensure the target of providing three million homes delivers tangible benefits to the public,” he concluded.

For context, the balanced-housing obligation is stipulated in Article 34 paragraph (2) of Law No. 1 of 2011 on Housing and Settlement Areas. The provision requires large-scale housing development by legal entities to provide balanced housing within a single area. Meanwhile, Article 21D paragraph (3) of Government Regulation No. 12 of 2021 governs the provision of balanced housing in developments that are not large-scale and are not located within a single area, requiring it to be provided within one regency or city.

The working visit was also attended by Director General of Governance and Risk Control H. Roberia, Bandung City Regional Secretary H. Iskandar Zulkarnain, Summarecon PDV III Executive Director Hindarko Hasan, and Commission V DPR RI’s working partners. (Rni/um)