HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - NTT PROVINCES, INDONESIA

Program Development

September 1993 to December 1994 - Carried out a feasibility study in association with Australian Construction Services in NTT supported by an australian Government (AIDAB) grant for "Housing and Poverty Alleviation".

June 1994 - Fairweather Homes formed a joint venture company (PT Puncak Rumah) in Indonesia with an Indonesian company PT Muara (Mr Gunawan Ong).

December 1994 - The prototype house was prefabricated in Darwin and shipped to and erected in Kupang. It was built by a team of Australian tradesmen and skilled Indonesian workers.

January 1995 - Fairweather Homes developed a number of new products for the Indonesian housing market based on Indonesian Government standards for low cost housing.

July 1995 - John Baird (Fairweather Homes) and Gunawan Ong (PT Muara) held a meeting with the Minister for Housing (Bapak Akbar Tandjung) in Jakarta, who supported the Fairweather Homes proposal to introduce a prefabricated "dry-wall" housing system into Indonesia. The recommended areas for these products were provinces outside Java and preferably where there was a tradition of building timber houses.

Markets Identified

From the above development activities an identified market area for Fairweather Homes housing was for "public service" housing administered by and financed through Provincial Governors and Bupati (local administrator) offices.

Markets were established in NTT provinces (Kupang and Soe), Flores group of islands, East Timor (Dili) and an innovative housing village for Cenderawasih University staff at Jaya Pura, Irian Jaya.

Prototype clusters of houses were built in Larantuka (Flores) and Kupang, and prefabricated components were exported to Kupang for Dili houses.

The overall cost of the completed houses was $Aus300/m2.

Australian Content

• High quality timber framing in "stick" form and external wall and roof claddings of pre-cut zincalume
• Construction training and supervision
• Australian content - 40% of total cost

Indonesian Content

• Materials including windows, internal linings, fit-out, fittings and services
• Construction labor
• Indonesian content - 60% of total cost