Wholesale market to go on-line

JAKARTA: City market operator PD Pasar Jaya will provide on- line data on prices and supply of various commodities at the Kramat Jati wholesale market, the largest supplier of fruit and vegetables in the city.

"We are ready to provide complete price and supply data to consumers. We hope the on-line data will be available in January 2005," the market's manager Lukman Hakim was quoted as saying by Antara news agency on Wednesday.

He explained that all the data could be accessed by farmers and traders nationwide so that they themselves could decide which commodities to sell to the wholesale market.

Lukman added that the service would prevent sudden price falls caused by oversupply. -- JP