JAKARTA: The Indonesian Real Estate Association (REI) has pledged to reduce the environmental impacts of its business to decrease the chance of flooding in the city.
"The construction of green buildings will not be bad for business," association chairman Lukman Purnomosis said Friday as quoted by Antara.
Developers are also ready to build percolation pits to harvest rainwater in housing complexes in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, he said.
"We will set aside more green areas in the housing complexes we establish."
Environmentalists have said developers who fail to preserve green space and tree cover are partly to blame for the increased flood risk in the city.
Lukman said the government needed to issue a policy on environmentally and pedestrian friendly design.
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