Klender traders protest management

Klender traders protest management

JAKARTA (JP): Eleven legume traders from Klender market in
East Jakarta went to the City Council yesterday to complain about
the city-owned market management company PD Pasar Jaya's
inconsistency in space allotment.

The traders asked councilors from Commission B for economic
affairs to urge PD Pasar Jaya to let them operate on the ground
floor and basement of the market.

They had been allotted space on the first floor but buyers did
not frequent their stalls as they could easily get what they
needed from those located on lower floors, Lala, one of the
traders, said.

"We have suffered big financial losses because no buyers are
willing to come to our stalls to buy our produce," she said.

The six-story market, which can accommodate 1,869 stalls, was
renovated last year after being razed by fire in March of that
year. Fire had also razed the market on Dec. 5, 1993.

Lala said that Pasar Jaya had issued a regulation setting
aside the first floor for legume trading, the basement for fruits
and spices and the ground floor for vegetables, fish and meat.
The remaining three floors had been turned into a parking lot.

However, many traders violated the regulations by trading
wherever they wanted without any punishment from Pasar Jaya
management.

Samino, another trader, said that in January they had filed
their complaint with the commission but they received no
response.

The head of the commission, Djafar Badjeber, promised
yesterday to summon the head of Pasar Jaya to discuss the matter.
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