Traders Protest To Send Wreaths, Semarang Walkot Will Organize Johar Market

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SEMARANG - The Mayor of Semarang, Central Java, Hendrar Prihadi said his party would regulate the traders who have the right to occupy the Johar Market which has been completed and has been re-functioning.

This was conveyed by Hendrar, who is familiarly called Hendi in response to the fact that there are still Pasar Johar traders who are not willing to occupy the stalls that have been distributed because they are not satisfied.

"If you still don't want to move, go ahead, there are many who want to enter," said Hendi in Semarang, quoted by Antara, Friday, December 3.

According to him, the revitalized Johar Market is not as wide as it was before it burned down some time ago.

Therefore, said Hendi, one solution to accommodate all traders is by drawing lots.

Meanwhile, traders who have not obtained a lapak, he continued, will still be accommodated to occupy other blocks.

"If you don't want it, give it to those who want it. It's simple," he said.

Meanwhile, Head of the Semarang City Trade Office, Fravarta Sadman, said that according to local regulations, if the stalls in traditional markets are not occupied within three months, the local government has the right to withdraw the stalls to be transferred to other traders.

In the lottery for the new Pasar Johar stall, he said, there were around 3,800 traders who had taken the lottery and got a stall. But conditions in the field, he said, there are still many empty stalls.

As previously reported, a number of traders from Johar Market, Semarang City, protested the distribution of stalls in the market which had been completed and started to be used because it was considered unfair.

It was recorded that there were around 400 traders who were thrown from their selling places when Johar Market had not caught fire.