Vendors rally at mayoralty office

TANGERANG: Dozens of vendors from Cikokol market staged a rally at Tangerang mayoralty office on Wednesday, demanding the administration provide them with an alternative location, as the vendors are soon to be evicted from the market.

They demanded to be placed at a location behind the regency water installation, about two hundred meters from Cikokol market.

The administration municipal secretary, Achmad Sudjai, said, however, that the request could not be fulfilled as the land was not owned by the administration, but was privately owned.

At the end of December 2000, the administration proposed a location at Tinggi market, but were refused by the vendors saying they could not afford the market's higher rents.

Cikokol market and bus terminal are soon to be transformed into Cikokol flyover and green lane as part of infrastructural developments in Tangerang.--JP