Tanah Abang market to be rebuilt

Tanah Abang market to be rebuilt

JAKARTA: The city administration plans to rebuild the
country's largest textile market, at Tanah Abang, destroyed by a
devastating fire that raged for a week last February.

The rebuilding project will start in December this year at the
latest, head of city market management at PD Pasar Jaya Syahrir
Tanjung said on Monday.

"We are tendering for the demolition and rebuilding of the
market," he said, adding that public bidding would run for six
weeks.

Syahrir said that demolition could take three months to four
months.

The process would be protracted, Syahrir said, as the workers
could only work at night, as many vendors were still trading and
occupied areas that had been razed by the fire.

The fire destroyed most of Blok A in the market, and parts of
Blok C and Blok E, devastated some 2,420 kiosks and affected more
than 7,500 kiosks. --JP