Getting cheap goods and losing kid

Getting cheap goods and losing kid

JAKARTA (JP): A 45-year-old mother had good and bad
experiences when she visited a cheap market at Monas Square
yesterday with her two toddlers, Herawati, 2, and Ragilio
Yoginugroho, 4.

After enthusiastically queuing to get cheap cooking oil at one
of the stands, she realized that one of her toddlers had gone
astray in her quest to get the now expensive and rare daily need.

The woman, Mukhtiah, traveled 15 kilometers from her home in
Cakung in East Jakarta to the market, where she heard cooking oil
would be sold cheaply. The market was set up temporarily to mark
the 51st Cooperative Day.

While carrying two bottles of cooking oil, Mukhtiah called
loudly to her son Yogi, who was not in sight.

"Does anyone know my Yogi's whereabouts?" she cried out in
front of Minister of Cooperatives and Small Enterprises Adi
Sasono, whom the woman did not recognize.

"There was a campaign in my neighborhood to help the poor buy
cheap basic food, but no oil cooking on offer, only rice and
sugar, so I came here to buy it," she told Antara news agency.
(rsl)