Jakarta, Feb 1 (Antara) - For most Indonesians, traditional markets are crucial to their day-to-day lives and economic activities, yet with the rapid growth of modern markets that have made shopping convenient, traditional markets are being pushed to the margins.
But since the country's middle and lower class consumers still need these traditional markets, they have actually drawn the attention of the government in the past one decade.
It was only in recent years that the government paid serious attention to revitalizing these markets, transforming them into a clean and convenient place for shopping.
The current government under the administration of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has planned to revitalize some 5,000 traditional markets across the country until 2019.
"The program to revitalize 5,000 traditional markets has been running well and will continue to till 2019. In 2015, the government revitalized 1,010 traditional markets. Actually, the number of traditional markets that were up for revitalization in 2015 had reached 1,017 but seven of them cancelled their proposals, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong said last week (Jan 26).
The previous government, under former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, had claimed in 2014 that it had renovated a total of 2,758 traditional markets between 2005 and 2013 at a total cost of Rp4.01 trillion.
Between 2011 and 2013, the Ministry of Trade revitalized 461 traditional markets, 53 of these being pilot projects.
"The funds for renovation of traditional markets were drawn from the Trade Ministry's Task Assistance Funds (TAF) and amounted to Rp1.9 trillion," former trade minister Gita Wirjawan had said while inaugurating the Leuwipanjang Market in Purwakarta District in January 2014.
In 2014, funds worth Rp556 billion were allocated from the state budget to revitalize traditional markets across the country.
In 2015, the government, through the Trade Ministry, had set a target to revitalize 469 traditional markets across Indonesia at a cost of about Rp997.5 billion, a senior official had said on Dec. 23, 2014.
Director General of Internal Trade of the Trade Ministry Srie Agustina, during a 2014 year-end reflection discussion, had remarked,"For 2015, we kept a total budget (of Rp997.5 billion) to revitalize 469 traditional markets."
Based on the results of a survey conducted by AC Nielsen in 2013, the number of traditional markets in Indonesia had continued to decline. In 2007, traditional markets numbered 13,550, which dropped to 13,450 in 2009, and declined further to 9,950 in 2011.
She pointed out that the number of traditional markets in Indonesia declined by 8.1 percent while that of modern markets grew by about 31.4 percent.
Agustina revealed that between 2010 and 2014, her ministry has revitalized 560 traditional markets across the country.
The number of revitalized markets was relatively small as compared to the total number of traditional markets in the country, which stood at about ten thousand.
Of the 469 markets set to be revitalized in 2015, 37 were to be financed with funds provided by the Trade Ministry while the remaining 335, located in various districts and cities, were to utilize the capital drawn from the Special Allocation Funds (DAK).
However, according to Trade Minister Thomas Lembong last week, the government was able to exceed the previous government's target to revitalize 469 traditional markets. It even reached 1,010.
Minister Thomas said that of the 1,010 traditional markets which were revitalized in 2015, some 182 were built with financing using the Task Assistance Funds (TAF), 65 with funds from the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small-Medium Enterprises and 763 with funds taken from the Special Allocation Funds (DAK).
The minister said he would not revise the target to revitalize 5,000 traditional markets until 2019 because the program has been running well up to now, based on the target set by the government.
"The focus of my attention is how to evenly implement the best market development practices in the country and apply an appropriate 21st century theme to the Indonesian traditional market networks," noted Thomas.
He expressed his hope that his ministry was willing to ensure that the "folk markets," particularly the traditional wholesale markets, are well connected with each other across Indonesia.
Besides, they should also have good spatial planning and rational funding proposals by the regional governments which actually had adequate budget.
"Probably there are still districts and municipal cities which have adequate funds but they still propose relatively big amount of funds to the central government. They should reduce the amount of funds in the proposals and stress for technical assistance such as in designing and spatial planning," remarked Thomas.
In 2015, the new government set a target to revitalize 1,000 units of traditional markets with funds amounting to Rp2.386 trillion.
Of this amount, Rp307.5 billion were to come from the Task Assistance Funds (TAF) scheme and Rp946 billion from the Special Allocation Funds (DAK), Rp1.054.5 trillion from the 2015 Revised State Budget (APBNP) and the remaining Rp18 billion were to be contributed by the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small-and Medium Enterprises.
The funds taken from the TAF and DAK schemes were to be used to revitalize a total of 935 units of traditional markets while the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small-and Medium Enterprises was to rebuild 65 traditional markets of C and D types.
Thus, the total funds as per previous plans to revitalize 1,000 traditional markets based on the target in 2015 had reached Rp2.386 trillion, according to the minister.
President Jokowi, when launching the 2015-2019 program to revitalize 5000 traditional markets last June, said the government allocated Rp1.075 trillion for the revitalization of 675 markets in 2015.
Through the APBNP, the government had added Rp1.311 trillion to revitalize another 325 markets so that the annual target of revising 1,000 traditional markets in 2015 would be reached with a total fund of Rp2.386 trillion. ***3*** (A014/INE)
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