Street vendors rally against eviction

Street vendors rally against eviction

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Some 500 street vendors at the
Terong public market staged a peaceful protest here on Friday
against an impending eviction.

The protesters marched through the downtown streets and
stopped in front of the office of city mayor H.B. Amiruddin.

Uji Feruji, one of the protesters, said the street vendors
were going to be relocated as they were considered to be the
cause of daily traffic congestion in and around the market.

The protesters failed to meet with Amiruddin on Friday but the
spokesman for the mayor's office promised that he would consider
the vendor's plea. (27)