Jakarta, April 6 -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto summoned senior officials, including Housing and Settlement Minister Maruarar Sirait, to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Monday to discuss housing plans for underprivileged citizens living along railway tracks.

Sirait confirmed the agenda, noting that the president would chair a limited coordination meeting to advance plans to upgrade slum areas near railways not only in Jakarta but also in Bandung, West Java, and Medan, North Sumatra.

"Our plans cover many locations. The land in Tanah Abang is state-owned and of strategic value, as are those in Bandung and Medan. We intend to tap these lands for the people's benefit; the state must be present in this matter," he told the p...