DENPASAR ~

Head of Community and Village Government (BPMPD) Denpasar Made Mertajaya said the city government has organized the traditional market with traditional market revitalization program, but awareness of hygiene is still lacking.

“Denpasar government has run a program to revitalize traditional markets since 2010 by managing the physical market that is clean, healthy, friendly and fresh, but traders are less concerned in maintaining the cleanliness of the market,” he said in Denpasar on Wednesday.

He said it was related to the convening of Traditional Market Festival 2015 assessment involving the Department of Industry and Trade, the Ministry, the Department of Public Works, Department of Animal Husbandry Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, and the Department of Transportation.

“The traders still seemed unconcerned of their garbage and put it under the stall. Though some garbage disposal has been provided,” he said

The festival is not just a market assessment, but is expected to change the patterns of behavior of the modern economy that is done through a clean lifestyle in the village market.

The success also depends on the commitment and synergy of government, market managers and the public market environment.

In the assessment, working units of Denpasar city provide input to the market managers and traders, both in maintaining cleanliness, waste management, and zoning arrangement to hygienic meat traders on zoning meat and fish traders.

From the assessment, the team also still find garbage which is still scattered around the stall of traders showing less concerned for traders towards hygiene that greatly affect the number of visits to traditional markets.

Traditional Market Festival is followed by 24 markets managed by indigenous villages, as well as managed by the Market Regional Company of Denpasar City. In the assessment will be set ten markets which are able to bring sense of ‘Sapta Pesona’ to obtain a valuation in accordance with the criteria of security, aspects of cultural insight, and aspects of hygiene and beauty.

“Some markets who have fulfilled the criteria will be claimed as the winner which is divided into two categories, namely friendly and fresh markets, as well as the cleanest and the shadiest market and be able to bring ‘Sapta Pesona’ (7 aspects of development and management of tourism),” he said.