Market vendors under pressure

Market vendors under pressure

From Bisnis Indonesia

There have recently been reports that dozens of traditional markets will be closed down. Strangely, president director of PD Pasar Jaya, a company under the Jakarta provincial administration assigned to manage traditional markets in Jakarta, has raised the operational fee.

In Pasar Citra Garden, for example, the fee imposed on a kiosk owner has been raised from Rp 3,000 daily to Rp 18,000 a day. Vendors selling vegetables and fresh fish have to pay a fee three times as much as before. Although the kiosk owners and the vendors in this market regularly pay a fee to PD Pasar Jaya, the market, which has been built by Citra Garden real estate developer as part of the facilities of the real estate, has never been renovated.

Raised fees will cause bankruptcy on the part of small-scale vendors in the market. PD Pasar Jaya must find other ways to collect money, for example, raising the parking fees or selling advertising space in the market.

TAUFIK KARMADI

Jakarta