PRESIDENT-ELECT Prabowo Subianto would be well-advised to discontinue one of President Joko Widodo’s controversial legacies: the Public Housing Savings (Tapera). From both political and economic perspectives, Tapera poses significant problems to Prabowo’s administration.

Politically, this program is highly contentious and has incited public outrage. When it was first introduced eight years ago through Law No. 4/2016 on the Public Hous