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View all search resultsMedan mayor admits mistake, revises circular on pork trade
The Medan city administration will allow pork vendors to sell their products as usual after a meeting with vendors.
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Vendors prepare pork for sale on Jan. 15, 2022, at a market in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat.
(AFP/Madaree Tohlala)
M
edan Mayor Rico Waas admitted wrongdoing and said he will revise a mayoral circular on the nonhalal meat location arrangement and waste management following a demonstration by pork traders.
Pork vendors are allowed to sell their products as usual.
Rico made the decision during a more than two-hour dialogue with representatives of pork vendors at his office on Thursday. He denied that he had intended any discrimination in issuing the circular.
“I did not have the thought or intention in that direction [discrimination]. Medan city is built based on plurality,” he told vendor representatives.
“We consist of various religions, races and ethnics. I, we all agree to maintain unity and oneness.”
Hundreds of traders and a number of mass organizations staged a demonstration at the mayor’s office on Thursday afternoon to protest the circular.
Assistant to the city secretary for governance and people’s welfare Muhammad Sofyan, who accompanied Rico in meeting the vendor representatives, revealed that there had been a mistake when the mayoral circular was issued.
