Indah Setiawati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 10/30/2009 5:34 PM
The Jakarta Administration will start relocating delman (traditional horse-drawn carts) from the National Monument Park in Central Jakarta to Ragunan Zoo in South Jakarta on Saturday.
"The delman drivers will be relocated to Ragunan from Oct. 31," city secretary Muhayat said Friday.
Over the past two years, delman drivers have protested in front of City Hall to demand the city lift a ban against them operating inside the National Monument Park.
The Central Jakarta administration issued the ban in 2007, saying the horses' excrement created bad smells and corroded the paving inside the park.
There are about 250 of the carts operating around Jakarta, the Betawi Delman Struggle Association says, 90 of them on the perimeter of the National Monument Park.
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