Traditional Markets
Unfriendly for Small Traders

The Presidential Regulation on Market Zoning was issued at the end of last year. However, in Jakarta nine traditional markets have already gone out of business.

January 15, 2008

DURING the last two weeks, things have seemed to be busy on the second floor of Block C-3 of the Sentra Mampang building in South Jakarta. Here, at the headquarters of the All Indonesia Market Traders Association (APPSI), almost every day several administrative members of staff are to be seen gathering materials—from newspaper clippings to survey results—regarding traditional markets and modern markets. This was all triggered by Presidential

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