Kramatjati market vendors protest

Kramatjati market vendors protest

JAKARTA: About a hundred traders at the Kramat Jati wholesale
market in East Jakarta expressed their opposition to the plan of
the market development, as it will increase their daily
operational costs.

Muslim Muzakir, a fruit trader at the market, said that the
traders particularly disagreed to the plan to move the "loading
and unloading" facilities from in front of the kiosks to the
place located some 60 meters away.

According to Muslim, if the plans to develop the Kramat Jati
market is implemented, the traders would have to spend at least
double to pay porters for the handling of their goods.

"Now, the trader pays Rp 20,000 per ton for loading or
unloading the commodities. If the new location is implemented
the traders would have to pay at least Rp 40,000 per ton," Muslim
added.

He said that some 2,500 tons of commodities are loaded and
unloaded in the Kramat Jati market every day.

Another reason for the traders' opposition is that security
for their goods in the new place is not guaranteed.

Chairman of the City Council's Commission B for Economic
Affairs Slamet Zulkarnain Ginting said that he would summon the
executives of city market operator, PD Pasar Jaya, to question
the issue. --JP