High enthusiast of people visiting National Monument (Monas), Central Jakarta, is utilized by street vendors to hawk their wares there. Not only trespassing park area, those street vendors are even recklessly hawking their wares inside the Monas Cup, selling souvenirs as well as snacks and drinks to visitors who packed the recreational site.

They are illegal street vendors. No one authorized them to sell inside Monas area

Head of Monas Management Unit (UP), Rini Hariyani, admitted that her party is overwhelmed in handling the invasion of street vendors who go deep into Monas Cup by jumping off the fence.

“They are illegal street vendors. No one authorized them to sell inside Monas area. They have no brains, recklessly jumping into the site just to sell inside without caring for Monas’ beauty. We’ve urged them since long ago not to sell here, but they ignored it. They are fiercer when my men prohibited them to sell inside and even threatened back,” she uttered, Wednesday (7/30).