Taman Puring Market Burns Three Times, Traders: This Time The Largest

JAKARTA A great fire hit Taman Puring Market, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, on Monday, July 28, 2025 evening. This incident is touted as the third fire ever to occur in the market.

"He said, he heard about it three times. But this is more big and severe," said Ika, a packaged drink trader, when met at the location of the fire.

Ika, who has been selling at Taman Puring Market since the 1990s, said that the previous fire occurred in 2002 and 2005. He received news about this fire from fellow traders ahead of Maghrib's time.

"I went straight to the merchandise location to secure the goods," he said.

Regarding the source of the fire, the 40-year-old woman admitted that she heard that the fire came from the center of the market, which is a dense kiosk area.

"If I listen, at first from the middle. He said it was the clothes, shoes, bags, everything was there," he explained.

Ika also hopes that there will be no casualties in this incident. If the goods don't know, but the victims don't know either. Hopefully there won't be any. Amen," he said hopefully.

The South Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat) deployed 115 personnel to deal with the fire. The fire began to be seen around 18.00 WIB and scorched about 500 stalls.

In addition, four detainees from the Kebayoran Baru Police were also transferred to the South Jakarta Metro Police as a security measure due to the location of the police station adjacent to the fire point.