Only five months offered, Meikarta is now being worked on by Lippo Group slowly become one of the phenomenal projects that many get the spotlight. Not without reason, because Meikarta does offer a variety of modern facilities that seemed to be a solution to the problems that exist in big cities. In fact, 130 thousand people have been recorded as the buyer of this largest apartment project in Indonesia.
International media also highlighted Meikarta. Noted Nasdaq, Reuters UK, Dow Jones has lowered the news about Meikarta. They highlight Meikarta as a new economic growth center, not only Jakarta but also for the whole of Indonesia.
All of that has actually been factored into by the Lippo Group, which has been a 67-year-old unfortunate in property. Meikarta, for Lippo which is now the largest property company in Indonesia, is a step further from the series of experience to build an independent city.
Except for its larger size and capacity, Meikarta is basically not much different from the township of Lippo Village Karawaci, located 30 kilometers west of Jakarta. There the needs of the population are met by various facilities provided by Lippo.
In both independent cities, there are various educational facilities from pre-school to university, hospitals, culinary trade centers, hotels, and recreational spots. In Meikarta there is even an Industrial Research Center to help anyone who is interested and interested in research for product development, management, market expansion and so forth.
Another similarity is the location of both located on the edge of the highway. Lippo Karawaci is on the edge of the highway connecting Jakarta with the industrial town of Cilegon and the Sumatra highway.
Meikarta is on the edge of the Jakarta-Bandung toll road which has grown as a tourist center and national industry. The toll road is also connected directly to the port city of Cirebon and trans Java road.
Given its location in a rapidly growing area in the manufacturing industry, Meikarta is also a design to grow as an efficient modern economic center. A nationally and internationally based industry and trade economy.
But that does not mean only the rich people who can live in mekarta. "Meikarta is our effort to provide affordable residential property equipped with various facilities with the best quality that is intended for all levels of society," said James Riady in talkshow BTN Golden Property Awards 2017.
When the time comes, the existence of Meikarta is expected to encourage the growth of 4 thousand international companies and 10 thousand in the country. Overall, the total number of workers absorbed can reach 2 million workers.
So it is not excessive if Meikarta can reduce social tension in Jakarta even Indonesia as a result of high unemployment rate. Imagine, the presence of newcomers in the world of work can reach 3.9 million per year.
Facing the challenges above is not new for Lippo Group because it is familiar with large-scale property projects at home and abroad. One of them is Midan City in South Korea.
This self-contained city is not only designed as an independent settlement but even as the most important business and entertainment hub in northeast Asia.
The area of 2.7 million square meters was built by Lipo based on the concept of All-in-One City. The distance is only 10 minutes from Incheon international airport, which has direct flight routes to major cities in the world such as Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong and Vladivostok.
Now the road to realize Meikarta as a center of settlement and international economic growth l is increasingly unfolding. The reason is the seriousness of the government to build infrastructure that will make life in Meikarta and 6 industrial areas around it excited.
Infrastructure development currently being rushed by the government is the deep sea port of Patimban, the international airport of Kertajati, the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road, the Bekasi Timur-Semanggi LRT, and the fast train of Jakata-Bandung.
It is no exaggeration, then, to say that Indonesia is one step away from having a large-scale municipal city that is beneficial to suppress housing supply deficits and unemployment rates, which can be relied upon to enhance the economic competitiveness of the increasingly tight global competition.