TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Satpol PP told to stand firm against Monas street vendors
Head of the Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) Kukuh Hadi Santoso has ordered personnel to take firm and immediate action against illegal street vendors at the National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta
Change Size
H
ead of the Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) Kukuh Hadi Santoso has ordered personnel to take firm and immediate action against illegal street vendors at the National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta.
Kukuh said on Saturday that street vendors were behaving unlawfully and were also often guilty of property damage in their efforts to sell at Monas, according to kompas.com.
"The situation is out of control at Monas. They [illegal vendors] don't just break the fence; they take [the fence] with them, which is out of line. Whomever can help stop them should be rewarded," he said.
Preserving the Monas park was Satpol PP's responsibility, he said. He added that the agency should not hesitate to detain anyone -- including Satpol PP officers -- who were found damaging park facilities.
According to previous reports, Jakarta Satpol PP deployed 1,000 personnel equipped with stun guns to enforce the law and keep vendors out the park.
Previously,
Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama told reporters
that the city administration would no longer tolerate the presence of
street vendors in the park.
According to Bylaw No. 8/2007 on public order, street vendors are prohibited from selling in parks, on roads and on sidewalks. For vendors who had formerly set up operations in the park, the city administration has provided commercial vending space near the Monas' IRTI parking lot
Despite these efforts, however, thousands of vendors continue to sell in the park.
The
deputy governor said regulating the street vendors turned ugly when
several vendors threatened welders who had been tasked with repairing
the park's broken fences.
Ahok said he suspected that 'bigger players' were behind the
persistent illegal vending at Monas park. 'Some big players bring the
vendors from outside the city into Monas,' he said. (fss/dic)
