Soeharto inaugurates Goro outlet<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto inaugurated yesterday a
\nwholesale outlet billed as Southeast Asia's largest in the elite
\nKelapa Gading residential district in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The latest Goro outlet in town, which offers more than 30,000
\nkinds of products at heavily discounted prices, comes with a huge
\nentertainment center and a massive area allocated for food
\nstalls.<\/p>\n
The owner of the facility is Hutomo \"Tommy\" Mandala Putra, the
\nyoungest son of the President, and owner of the diversified
\nHumpuss business group.<\/p>\n
\"This is a purely national endeavor,\" Tommy told reporters
\nafter driving his father around on a tour of the facility in an
\nelectric car. \"There is no foreign investment here. This is a
\njoint venture, a partnership between private companies and
\ncooperatives.\"<\/p>\n
PT Goro Batara Sakti, the company which owns this facility and
\nthe first Goro shop in Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta, involves
\nthe Gelael group, which has decades of experience in retailing
\nthrough its Gelael supermarkets.<\/p>\n
Tommy said he plans to open several more wholesale outlets
\nacross Indonesia, bringing in even more small-scale traders and
\ncooperatives. \"Jakarta alone has room for at least five more
\nshops. But the next one will be built in Surabaya,\" he said.<\/p>\n
PT Goro Batara Sakti's Chief Commissioner, I. Danubrata, was
\nmore specific, saying that three Goro centers will be built next
\nyear, and that by 2000 the company hopes to manage at least 12
\nwholesale outlets.<\/p>\n
Around 90 percent of the 30,000 products on sale at the shop
\nare locally manufactured, most of them supplied at factory
\nprices, Danubrata said.<\/p>\n
Joining the tour of the 10-hectare facility yesterday were
\nseveral of the children and grandchildren of President Soeharto.<\/p>\n
Among the cabinet officials taking the tour were Coordinating
\nMinister for Production and Distribution Hartarto and Minister of
\nCooperatives Subiakto Tjakrawerdaya. (emb)<\/p>",
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