Gibran Blusukan To Pontianak Market, Pakis Shopping To Salty Fish

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka made a surprise visit or blusukan to the Flamboyan Market in Pontianak City, West Kalimantan, on Saturday (23/8/2025) morning. BETWEEN Dwi Gayati.

JAKARTA - Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka made a surprise visit or blusukan to the Flamboyan Market in Pontianak City, West Kalimantan on Saturday morning.

Gibran buys local commodities, such as fern vegetables to salted fish.

When he arrived at Flamboyan Market, Vice President Gibran was immediately greeted enthusiastically by local residents and traders.

Although the narrow market aisle, it does not reduce the enthusiasm of the community to get closer to Gibran.

One of the vegetable traders, Nuraini (27) revealed that she asked Vice President Gibran to buy a fern because she had never eaten the vegetable.

Earlier (Vice President) spent fern. I introduce a fern because I never ate a fern he said. I said this is typical of Kalimantan, it is difficult to find it and must be in the forest," said Nuraini as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, August 23.

Nuraini said that the Vice President bought 10 fern ikats which he valued at only Rp. 5,000 per bunch, compared to the normal price of Rp. 10,000 per bunch.

In addition to buying fern, Gibran also spent five packages of petai at a price of Rp. 30 thousand. Gibran also paid for all the vegetables he bought with an envelope to Nuraini.

In addition to vegetables, Gibran also bought 2 kilograms of salted fish.

Buy 2 kilos of salted fish (grams). The price is Rp. 240 thousand, per kilo is Rp. 120 thousand," said Aweng, a seller of salted fish.

In the market, Gibran also heard the aspirations of a number of traders who complained that commodity prices were starting to increase.

"Hopefully after today's visit it can be cheaper because it is even more expensive in Pontianak, such as onions," said the onion trader, Toni.