Semarang Mayor: Johar Fire Relocation Not Related To Arrangement

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SEMARANG - The Mayor of Semarang, Hendrar Prihadi, emphasized that the Johar Market fire relocation in the Great Mosque of Central Java was not related to the arrangement carried out by his staff.

"I emphasize that there is no correlation between the arrangement of the Johar Market and this fire, we are waiting for the results from the police regarding the cause, for example excessive electricity loads, or other elements. So don't get involved because this is sensitive, we don't want people to suffer," he said in Semarang, quoted by Antara. , Thursday, February 3.

He said that the Semarang City Trade Service is currently calculating the number of stalls that were burned along with all the material losses suffered by the traders.

According to him, before the fire, there were 1,200 stalls of traders, but some of them were occupied by one vendor, two or three stalls combined, and some were empty.

"So we are still waiting for the Trade Office for the exact data, I also ask the Trade Trade Office to accelerate and calculate it," he said.

Hendi, who is called the Mayor of Semarang, said that there were no casualties and only material losses in the Johar Relocation Market fire.

However, in the near future, he will conduct a direct review of the traders who are victims of the fire.

"I will immediately meet the victims and ask what they want, we will absorb it later and what they need to be able to sell quickly again," he said.

Meanwhile, Head of the Semarang City Trade Office, Nurkholis, said that as of Thursday, February 3 morning, 163 traders were affected by the fire and this data is expected to continue to grow in line with the data collection carried out by his party.

Regarding the relocation site for the traders who were victims of the Padar Johar relocation fire, Nurkholis said that currently they are taking measurements at Kanjengan Market so that it can be seen how many traders can be accommodated there.

"We count only active traders for those who are then relocated," he said.

As previously reported, a huge fire broke out at the Johar Relocation Market in the Great Mosque of Central Java on the evening of Wednesday, February 2nd.

The fire was first seen blazing in Block F at around 18.30 WIB and quickly spread so that it burned dozens of stalls and stalls starting from Blocks F1 to F9.

The fire was finally extinguished by firefighters along with volunteers and traders at around 23.00 WIB.