Narrowing The Road, Street Vendors At Ilir Market In Palembang Are Tidied Up By Joint Officers

Controlling PKL Pasar 16 Ilir Palembang, Thursday (26/6/2025) in the morning. BETWEEN/HO-Perkot Palembang.

SOUTH Sumatra - The City Government (Pemkot) of Palembang in South Sumatra (Sumsel) deployed joint officers to tidy up street vendors (PKL) at Pasar 16 Ilir.

Plt Kasatpol PP Palembang Herison said the control and arrangement of the PKL location was in accordance with applicable standard operating procedures (SOP) and was carried out at night after the sellers sold.

"Last night we ordered, after the traders were selling," he said, confirmed on Thursday, June 26, which was confiscated by Antara.

The joint officers involved in this control consisted of members of the Transportation Agency, Satpol PP, firefighters, and cleaning staff.

According to him, the Satpol PP has also coordinated with relevant regional apparatus organizations (OPD) to cooperate in controlling and structuring the PKL dense area.

"To clean up trash and ditches, there are DLH and PUPR, the arrangement of the Dishub road and we are also assisted by personnel from the TNI and Polri," explained Herison.

In addition, he also explained that the street vendors selling had closed the road, so four-wheeled vehicles and two-wheeled vehicles could not pass.

"This is for the public and the wider community, because of the function of the road for vehicles," he explained.

Herison conveyed that the arrangement was also related in terms of beautifying the face of Palembang City.

"Hopefully this task will run smoothly in order to make Palembang empowered and prosperous," he said.

Meanwhile, currently in the market, the Palembang City Government continues to strive to beautify the area by cleaning the park and arranging parking so that parking vehicles can be safer through a digital payment system.

Palembang Satpol PP officers are on standby for 24 hours mobile to secure the location of the largest traditional market center in Palembang.

Satpol PP also provides guard posts that have also installed several speakers that are routinely used to appeal to visitors to be more careful from pickpocketing, bullying and other criminal acts and immediately report to the Integrated Post if they experience these crimes.

The appeal was also addressed to traders not to hold merchandise at the location and also to socialize to all visitors to bring ID cards when traveling both physically and electronically.