Why Are Apartments Still Difficult to Build in Bali?

The emergence of pros and cons among the community, especially local traditional leaders in Bali, has made the vertical occupancy height in the area still pegged at 15 meters. So, do not be surprised if the average number of floors in a condotel or hotel is not more than five floors because there is no regulation that supports this. Chairman of the Bali Real Estate Companies Association (REI) Bali Pande Agus said that his party had tried to negotiate with the local government so that the vertical occupancy height in Bali could be revised. However, so far there seems to be no bright spot.

"We have made efforts since 6 years ago, only the pros and cons are because for the problem of altitude it is necessary to make a separate case study," he told.

The limitation on the maximum height of 15 meters is regulated in the Bali Regional Spatial Plan 2009-2021 Perda to be precise in Article 95 paragraph 2, point b. The existence of these restrictions is in order to maintain the Tri Hita Karana concept. Tri Hita Karana has a philosophical meaning of a harmonious relationship between humans and humans, humans with the environment, and humans with God.

Currently, the concept is still held by Balinese customs. Pande Agus admitted that his party had tried to provide understanding to the community and government that Bali needed a breakthrough in vertical housing. This is intended so that development in Bali does not have an impact on land use change. "We have tried to illustrate to the public and the government that the area in Bali is limited, while there are several business sectors that we must keep, such as agriculture and tourism," he said. He is worried that if the maximum 15 meter height rule is still maintained, land conversion in Bali will also continue to occur. Rice fields can be eroded by widened development due to maximum restrictions on height.

This Year Departing from these worries, his party is ready to sit together to find such a solution without having to disrupt the land use change which is increasingly being eroded by development itself. "If we stay at a height of 15 meters, I am worried that in the future it will affect other sectors because now there are many rice fields that have finally been built houses without permission," he said.

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