A Market of Misfortune

INITIALLY, this site of this market was a 200-square-meter swamp cabbage plantation. During the 1950s, many merchants from Java and Bugis-Makassar peddled their wares there. “This was the first place which became busy in Balikpapan,” said Sofyan Asnawie, an elder of the Association of the Families of School and University Students of East Kalimantan.

Later, this market was named Kebun Sayur because it stood on a swamp cabbage plantation. It

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