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Vendors occupy roads as their Tanah Abang market closed for TOD project
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Former Tasik Market traders park their vehicles to use them as stalls along Jl. Jati Bunder in the Tanah Abang market district in Central Jakarta on April 9, after they were evicted from the market to make way for a transit-oriented development (TOD) project. (Antara/Aprillio Akbar)
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endors from the so-called Tasik Market in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, have occupied several streets along the crowded business district following the closure of the market in March for a transit-oriented development (TOD) project.
State-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) region I senior asset manager, Tanang, said that KAI had to implement the TOD development in the market area, “Hence, before it begins, the area should be cleared first.”
Tasik market, named after Tasikmalaya in West Java, the hometown of the traders who specialize in selling embroidery textiles on Mondays and Thursdays, is on a plot of land belonging to KAI.
Tanang said KAI had disseminated the information via letters to all parties occupying the site. The market was cleared of traders at the end of March. Access to the land has also been closed, reported tempo.co.
Earlier, Deputy Jakarta Governor Sandiaga Uno said traders from the market would be included in the Tanah Abang spatial planning concept, promising to find a location for those affected by the development.
For now, he plans to ask the Jakarta Police to allow traders to occupy the land on at least Thursday this week and Monday next week.
Besides the TOD, the land is currently under Jakarta Police investigation in relation to a case involving PT Padi Mas Realty, which rented the land but which was considered to be in breach of its contract with KAI. KAI decided to demolish illegal buildings on the land and subsequently Padi Mas Realty is suing KAI. (wnd)
