Street vendors face further eviction

Street vendors face further eviction

JAKARTA: Central Jakarta municipality administration is eyeing
three markets -- Tanah Abang, Senen and Pasar Baru -- as its next
target to evict street vendors from operating in the areas.

Mayor Muhayat said that the eviction process was needed to
keep the municipality in order and attractive.

The municipal administration has been focusing to relocate
thousands of street vendors that operate from the Tanah Abang
market to the Kebon Jati market.

Besides street vendors, the administration will also demolish
hundreds of shanties in Bongkaran area, near the Tanah Abang
market. The administration claimed that the shanties also served
for prostitution. -- JP