Traditional markets increasingly marginalized

Bantul regency government continues to minimize the presence of modern markets in the form of hypermarkets, supermarkets and minimarket to maintain economic viability of the small people. If the "free market" is applied in the area south of Yogyakarta, the artisans and entrepreneurs gurem can not survive as a result of competition from modern markets.

M. Bantul Regent Idham Samawi said Bantul community structure is filled approximately 41 percent of farmers, 18 percent of small-craft industries, 14 percent of small traders in traditional markets.


In the seminar "Leadership Transition Idham Samawi Bantul Pasca", he declared the modern market restrictions into Bantul not merely populist policies and for show.

He said the effects of modern markets in the province of Yogyakarta starting tergesernya traditional markets. Until late 2008, the growth of modern markets in the whole province reached 37 percent, instead of traditional market access and declining earnings up 8 percent per year.

Observers of University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) Permatasari Anne S. IP, M. Si states without a lot to accommodate the modern market, the economy may rise in Bantul. "Within the last five years, employment grew to reach 14,000 workers," he said Monday (28/12).

He highlighted the local district programs hastily without planning such as the division of three laying hens to every elementary school student. The program is an independent business development, he said failed because students do not have land for farming. Another program that does not work, greening the Parangtritis Beach.