REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SURABAYA -- Traders have asked the central government to help settle the question of Turi Market in Surabaya which lacks visitors after it has been reconstructed following a blaze at the market in July 2007.

Djaniadi Hadi Sadikin, who is a trader at the market said on Sunday he has written a letter to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo with regard to the issue.

"We also have written similar letters to the Indonesian Ombudsman and Vice President Jusuf Kalla," he said.

In the letter he asked the government to help settle the question of Turi Market.

He said the reconstruction of the largest wholesale market in the eastern part of Indonesia has been 98 percent completed.

"So we hope Mr. Jokowi or Mr JK to visit Surabaya," he said.

He expressed the hope that the central government will ask the Surabaya city administration to demolish temporary trade sites which cause difficult access to New Turi Market.

"Right now many traders have opened stands there. But because they lack visitors they are only open for three to four hours. If the temporary trade sites are demolished, God willing, some 4,610 traders that have paid for stands will sell goods inside the market," he said.

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