Indonesia to prevent housing developments on rice paddies


By Alex
  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025

JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government is planning to prohibit developers from building houses on rice paddies across the archipelago, said a senior official at the Public Housing and Settlements Ministry.

"The president has banned us from using rice fields to build housing," the ministry's deputy minister Fahri Hamzah said in a seminar here on Tuesday.

He also called on developers not to interfere with President Prabowo Subianto's vision for food self-sufficiency.

Indonesia is targeting to build three million houses per year, one of the primary initiatives announced by Prabowo during his time as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

In the seminar, Hamzah also confirmed that the government would not use rice fields for the three million housing program.

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