The fruit center on the second floor of the Johar Main Market in Semarang was deserted on May 1. A few vendors could be seen napping on piles of cardboard. Only one stall seemed busy, its owner stacking grapefruits and sapodillas on a table. The market accommodates 60 fruit vendors. Approximately 500 other vendors are scattered around 47 other state-owned markets in the Central Java capital.

It is still quiet," said Suparno, the vendor who was sett