Yogyakarta’s Beringaharjo traditional market has changed, becoming more clean. The floor is
still wet, and the market springs out of small rows
in narrow corridors. But not
long time ago, this traditional market had dirt floor and the sky for
the roof, before it was re- located to
the building in order to make it clean
and organized.
The traditional market is a real life picture
of people struggling to generate
income with their own resources, without a
helping hand from the government.
Outside the market, many poor, disabled and
very old people sit around waiting for money.
Different areas and floors are designed for different products. Unlike in supermarkets, where the price is
fixed and the staff are paid, in traditional market you can bargain for what
you think is a fair price for the products.
In Beringharjo Market, sometimes it is not easy to find imported fruit
like fat Chinese apples, juicy Hawaiian pineapples or flawless Washington
apples. Instead, you find the mango,
soursops, guava, star fruits, limes, avocado and a variety of local fruits not
sold in the supermarket because they are blemished.
This fruit does not keep as well as their
genetically modified cousins in supermarket.
Now days more supermarkets are being built,
with the product prices not much different, the
owner invisible, with young people
as sellers not sunburnt
aging women with crooked teeth. What would these people do, where would they go
if the supermarket replaces all the
traditional ones? (FH)
Summary from www.desinawar.blogspot.com
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