Comments on: Indonesian D-Minution House Built for Under $20K

By: mas pri

mas pri — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:31:43 +0000

I’m a native Indonesian, you could buy a house for less than 40k here(including the cost to buy the site). the building you posted here is still under the 40k house in quality but for most people here, this is a good building. I just built my house for less than 40k (the building cost) for 600 sq meters site. The problem about building or buying a house here is you never get any warranty for say 20 years like you may get in Australia. I try my best to make my house earthquake resistant up to a point, strengthen and spending more for the structure, but I don’t know about any standard of quake resistant building.

By: jimjam244

jimjam244 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:16:24 +0000

well if you love south west Asian countries and Asian countries like most Americans males that has been working over seas 17, 5 for a house in and Asian country is not only a wise investment but peace and tranqility after working 6 months straight in the dessert without any vacation .bravo inhabitat i am negotiated construction in Casa blanca and closing a deal in Malang and just spent a lil over 42000
try doing that in Newyork Florida or California get in where you fit in
peace and blessing to all .

By: agit

agit — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:21:16 +0000

$17,500 is modest budget ! Without loosing good quality of work in Indonesia. This is affordable house for newly wed couples which can accomodate all their needs. Thank you

By: babay

babay — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:03:09 +0000

$17,500 is a usual cost when building a house in indonesia, and it’ll contextually expensive when you built it to a 1,050 square feet of space…trust me. i live in indonesia… but this is a great article for marketing a project though.

By: joolee

joolee — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:04:07 +0000

USD17,500 is 175,584,500 rupiah, so I think this says more about the cost of living in Indonesia.

By: ecoarchitect

ecoarchitect — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:41:40 +0000

great project, but could never be built that cheap in us – the price variance is due to one’s purchasing power in indonesia due to lower labor/material costs….