Food bazaar by street vendors

Food bazaar by street vendors

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration is launching a one-month
food bazaar in which hundreds of sidewalk vendors will present
traditional Indonesian dishes.

The bazaar opens on Monday and is designed chiefly to cater
Moslems breaking their daily fast through the current Ramadhan
month. Governor Surjadi Soedirja is slated to open the bazaar.

Nyoman Djendria, the head of city administration's Informal
Sector Development Agency, said the event is being organized as
part of his office's drive to assist vendors in the informal
sector, Antara reported yesterday.

Djendria said his agency oversees the activity of hundreds of
thousands of people who make their living in Jakarta's informal
sector, including 104,000 side-walk vendors and 9,000 scavengers.
The office also oversees the activities of some 19,483 household
industries and 345,775 services industry, which also belong to
the informal sector.

Djendria said it is the duty of the administration to assist
workers in the informal sector. "Their improvement is important
if we are to narrow the wealth disparity that exists in the
city."

He said the strong 8.7 percent economic growth rate which
Jakarta has averaged in recent years also has is consequences,
namely its attraction of thousands of people with little
education and few skills. Most of them end up working in the
informal sector. (30)