KETAPANG, thekabarnews.com—The Ketapang Regency Administration, West Kalimantan, is prioritizing the expansion of safe and adequate housing. This comes after local data showed that 26,516 homes remained unfit for habitation at the end of 2025.

The Ketapang Public Housing and Settlement Areas Agency (Dinas Perkim) leads the program. It supports Regent Alexander Wilyo and Deputy Regent Jamhuri Amir’s development vision. Their goal is to build a more advanced and self-reliant Ketapang through equitable infrastructure development.

Dinas Perkim Head Yudhi Agus Kurniawan said the scale of the housing problem required a gradual intervention. Moreover, he emphasized that it required cooperation across multiple levels of government.

“Many homes are still classified as unfit for habitation. Increasing the percentage of livable homes in Ketapang Regency is a shared duty and responsibility of the regency, provincial and central governments,” Yudhi told reporters on Thursday, July 30.

The local government also sees collaboration with the private sector as part of the broader effort to improve housing conditions.

The statement did not specify the program’s annual renovation target, implementation schedule or detailed budget allocation.

Ketapang’s official 2025–2029 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD) shows that the proportion of livable homes increased from 71.85% in 2020 to 82.25% in 2024. In addition, the proportion of homes categorized as unfit for habitation stood at 17.06% in 2024.

A separate indicator in the same document recorded that 4.86% of unfit homes were handled in 2024. This figure represents the rate of housing intervention, not the overall proportion of uninhabitable homes. Ketapang’s housing agency provided the data published in the official regional development plan.

A home is considered adequate when it meets four main criteria: structural durability, sufficient living space, access to proper sanitation and access to safe drinking water. Importantly, the minimum living-space standard is 7.2 square meters per person.

Ketapang’s housing challenge reflects a wider national gap. Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported that 65.25% of Indonesian households lived in adequate housing in 2024.

BPS housing data therefore indicate that roughly one in three households had yet to meet all minimum housing standards.

Article 54 of Indonesia’s Housing and Settlement Areas Law requires the government to meet the housing needs of low-income communities. It must also provide assistance through gradual and sustainable housing programs, according to Law No. 1/2011.

For Ketapang, measurable annual targets, transparent beneficiary data and clear funding commitments will be essential. These elements will help assess how quickly the regency can reduce its backlog of 26,516 unfit homes.