Public Housing Savings Will Add Burden to Labor-Intensive Manufacturing Industry

May 28, 2024, 08.59 PM | Reporter: Aurelia Lucretie

ILUSTRASI. Direktur Consumer Bank BTN Hirwandi Gafar (kiri) bersama Komisioner BP Tapera Adi Setianto (kanan) dan Dirjen Pembiayaan Infrastruktur PUPR Herry Trisaputra Zuna (kedua kanan) berbincang dengan penghuni perumahan bersubsidi di Palembang, Sumatera Selatan, Selasa (26/9/2023). PT Bank Tabungan Negara Tbk melalui Unit Usaha BTN Syariah bersama BP Tapera menggelar Akad Massal KPR Syariah sebanyak 2.300 unit secara serentak di seluruh Indonesia. BTN Syariah menargetkan dapat menyalurkan pembiayaan syariah sekitar 45.750 unit. Jumlah tersebut terdiri dari 35.150 KPR Syariah Subsidi dan 10.600 KPR Syariah Non Subsidi. (Foto Dok. BTN)

BP TAPERA - JAKARTA. The Indonesian government's policy of the Public Housing Savings (Tapera) mandates workers to save 3% of their income, with 2.5% contributed by the worker and 0.5% by the employer, which could potentially burden the industrial sector.

Riza Annisa Pujarama, a Macro and Financial Economics Researcher at the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), stated that while Tapera could provide workers with access to more decent housing, it could also increase the burden on the industrial sector, particularly the manufacturing sector, which is currently experiencing a slowdown.

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