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