Vendors want to be allowed to return

Vendors want to be allowed to return

JAKARTA: Evicted sidewalk vendors in Glodok, West Jakarta,
have asked the city administration to let them return to their
original location.

The vendors were at the site on Wednesday to collect their
merchandise after the administration dismantled their kiosks on
the first day of Idul Fitri on Nov. 3.

Most of the vendors, who have been doing business in the area
since 1980s, said they had a valid permit to establish a kiosk in
the city's busiest commercial area.

However, the West Jakarta administration has insisted on
converting the area into a city park and asked the vendors to
move to either inside Glodok market and Jembatan Lima area in
West Jakarta or to Pluit market in North Jakarta and Petojo Hilir
in Central Jakarta. -- JP