Fauzi grateful for mall domination

Despite condemning malls as a source of consumerism, Governor Fauzi Bowo says everybody should be grateful because these shopping malls provide a lot of jobs.

“Malls can harbor a work force comprising the lowest to the highest levels. Thus we should be grateful for this fact instead,” he said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

He then said that shopping malls should be treated as tourist attractions so that the government could increase the city’s economy.

“Just like Hong Kong and Singapore, which have less space than we but have been able to boost their tourism through shopping malls, we should be able to take the same direction,” he said.(dic)