ONLY three months into his job as Chair of the Public Housing Savings Management Agency (BP Tapera), Heru Pudyo Nugroho faced endless criticism. The cause of the public outcry is the Government Regulation No. 21/2024 regarding Public Housing Savings (Tapera) obligating all employees to deposit 3 percent of their monthly income for the Tapera fund. “We didn’t expect this level of public outrage,” he said.

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