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        "msgid": "tebet-traders-upset-at-chain-store-plan-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-12-19 00:00:00",
        "title": "Tebet traders upset at chain store plan",
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        "summary": "Tebet traders upset at chain store plan JAKARTA (JP): Thirteen people, representing 480 traders at the Tebet Barat market, South Jakarta, complained to the City Council yesterday about the market cooperative's plan to lease part of the market building to a department store. The traders said efforts to communicate with the market authority were fruitless, so they turned to the council for help.",
        "content": "<p>Tebet traders upset at chain store plan<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Thirteen people, representing 480 traders at the<br>\nTebet Barat market, South Jakarta, complained to the City Council<br>\nyesterday about the market cooperative's plan to lease part of<br>\nthe market building to a department store.<\/p>\n<p>The traders said efforts to communicate with the market<br>\nauthority were fruitless, so they turned to the council for help.<\/p>\n<p>They said they are against the plan to lease the second floor<br>\nof the market building for a Ramayana department store.<\/p>\n<p>The traders told the council's commission for economic affairs<br>\nthat the main reason for their opposition was the unfair<br>\ncompetition posed by the chain store, which they said would put<br>\nthem out of business.<\/p>\n<p>The market is managed by a cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>\"The department store sells the goods the traders sell. We are<br>\nworried about being kicked out of business,\" Yandri, the<br>\nspokesman for the small-scale businessmen, said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the traders in the market sell various goods, such as<br>\nclothes and stationery.<\/p>\n<p>Yandri said the traders have been complaining about a decrease<br>\nin buyers recently. \"We can no longer pay our monthly<br>\ninstallments for the kiosks punctually. The plan to let Ramayana<br>\noperate here means to kill us.\"<\/p>\n<p>The traders started worrying about their businesses 15 days<br>\nago when the cooperative announced the plan, Yandri said.<\/p>\n<p>Yandri said that the cooperative has breached an agreement<br>\nprohibiting chain department store from opening there. \"Officials<br>\nfrom PD Pasar Jaya, a city-owned market company, witnessed the<br>\nsigning of the deal between the traders and PD Pasar Jaya in<br>\n1989.\"<\/p>\n<p>The traders also questioned the motive behind the plan to<br>\nlease the second floor of the market building.<\/p>\n<p>Yandri said that the cooperative argues that the department<br>\nstore will encourage more people to shop at the market and this<br>\nwill also benefit the traders.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't think that's the motive. We suspect that the<br>\ncooperative wants to rent to Ramayana in order to get enough<br>\nmoney to pay back its loan at Bukopin bank,\" he said. (yns)<\/p>",
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