Street vendors protest planned eviction

Street vendors protest planned eviction

YOGYAKARTA: More than 300 street vendors, who live along the
banks of Mataram River in Sleman regency here, rejected on
Thursday a plan by the Sleman government to evict them.

Riding a truck, five cars and dozens of motorcycles, the
street vendors descended on the official residence of Yogyakarta
Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X here to solicit support from
him to cancel the plan.

But, the protesters went home disappointed, as Suwarno, an
official with the Yogyakarta governor's office, told the
protesters that the governor was out of town.

Meanwhile, despite the protest, Sleman regent Ibnu Subiyanto
pledged that he would stick to his plan to evict the street
vendors. -- JP