Tanah Abang Market Is Quiet, LaNyalla Affirms The Need For Data-Based Mitigation

Tanah Abang Market. (Doc Pasar Jaya)

This week the mass media have reported the lack of Tanah Abang Market as the largest burial center in the capital. This is in the spotlight of the Chairman of the DPD RI AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti. Given the distribution of Tanah Abang goods to all regions in the country.

The government must immediately carry out mitigation and have accurate data-based information. This is quiet because there has been a change in people's spending patterns, or a decrease in people's purchasing power. This is important to determine the next policy," said the Senator from East Java.

The former chairman of the East Java Chamber of Commerce and Industry is not sure if changes in the shopping pattern from direct to online have such an effect. This is because some traders there claim to have taken that pattern, by offering their merchandise online, even live shops. But there are still no buyers.

"I also don't believe that online sales from other countries are the main reason, such as goods from China that are direct to end customers. Because since the middle of the semester until now China has experienced economic downturn with decreased export and import value," he explained.

LaNyalla suspects that the decline in the purchasing power of the lower middle class as the main trigger. Moreover, China's export-import failure will definitely affect 122 partner countries, including Indonesia. This must be an accurate data-based mitigation focus. Because, there are many variable makers who reduce people's purchasing power," he added.

Factors contributing to the reduction in people's purchasing power, he added, could be due to the addition of unemployment, price inflation, new poverty, from the vulnerable to poverty to poverty. So that in the end, according to basic need theory, people delay spending, in addition to eating.

What is often late for detection by the government is the birth of new poor groups. Because previously they were not recorded as the 26 million poor population. But they are vulnerable to poverty. Once laid off, or sick, they immediately fell into poverty. Moreover, those who do not have savings and the house is still rented," he said.

Another factor is of course inequality, the Gini ratio and the HDI number. This is the importance of the state having an economic system that is fair in favor. With the main agenda of prosperity. But the philosophy must be remembered, prosperity will never exist, without justice. Realize social justice first,' concluded the figure who is keen to fight for the Indonesian Constitution to return to Pancasila.