Invite Investors To Build Surabaya Youth Park, Mayor: Regional Budget Is Not Enough

JAKARTA - Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyadi is ready to invite investors to rebuild the Surabaya Youth Park (TRS) which is a complex with the Hitech Mall building and the People's Amusement Park (THR).

"We will build the Youth Park to remain an open place for elementary-junior high school performances as it used to be," said Mayor Eri Cahyadi, quoted by Antara, Sunday, April 10.

According to Eri, TRS is known as an open space for artistic activities. In addition, TRS is also a center for elementary and junior high school students to showcase their artistic talents.

"Because this is history, don't forget it. So for places of art, we really focus on that, apart from the Youth Hall," he said.

In fact, he continued, to support the development, his party also admitted that it would invite investors. Because, said Eri, the Surabaya City Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) will not be enough if it is used to build everything.

"The point is how everything can move, for the arts, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) IT, and the people of Surabaya, including Hitech Mall. The glory of cultural arts must be returned again," he said.

The Surabaya City Government's efforts to reconnect the Hitech Mall building with the THR and TSR art complexes had previously begun with the relocation of the booths for electronic traders to the ground floor some time ago.

The city government has arranged the booths for traders in the Hitech Mall building as an effort to restore the function of the Hitech Mall as well as reconnect it with the THR and TRS art complexes.

Eri said that the arrangement carried out by the city government at Hitech Mall was the concept of sharing space. This means, he continued, the traders at Hitech Mall will still exist, as will the existence of the art building as usual.

"When Surabaya was a big city, there was no art. Surabaya has ludruk, dances and so on. It means that you have to have an art building that is connected to the Hitech Mall building," he said.