Queen Victoria Market was established in 1878. This year, the traditional market in the City of Melbourne is 133 years old. This market is traditionally called not only because it is already present through the number of generations, but commodity vegetables that are sold openly on display at the stall. Just vegetables market in the Market Manggarai, South Jakarta.

Traditional Market Queen Victoria is clean. Traded goods is set refers to a block ranging from vegetables, meat, fish, cooking ingredients ready to cook, home accessories, and clothing. The traditional market is combines with food and clothing sales. This place is located at the corner of Queen Street, Victoria Street and Peel Street in Melbourne.

This place can be reached by the three various transportation public such as trams, trains, and buses. Generally people here tram ride from the station and stopped at La Trobe Elisabeth Street. Tourists visiting the city bus terminal down at number eight. The availability of this facility allows residents to shop in the city of Queen Victoria.

Traditional markets here are not comparable with Grass Market or Pasar Tanah Abang. Perhaps the history of settlement and development of Melbourne and Jakarta are very different so it is difficult to make traditional markets orderly. The urban population growth affect to the structural arrangement of the city in Melbourne. Need extra work and planning by accurately managing the city’s population to reach 7 million people such as in Jakarta.

Food prices quite expensive compared with similar commodities in traditional markets in Jakarta. Call For example, Thailand and Australia rice sells for AUS $ 4.5 per kilogram, equivalent Rp39.600 per kg, chicken meat AUS $ 7 per kg, and cassava AUS $ 3 per kg.

The Queen Victoria Market has setup by conditioning thematically, for example, before Easter this April. Various festivals were held and a number of specific organic vegetables is highlighted, such as telecommunication, corn, and cauliflower. This is indeed one of the campaign manager of Queen Victoria was developed.

Victoria Market is only open at 09:00 to 16:00 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 06:00 to 14:00. On Friday and Saturday, this market opens at 6:00 a.m. to 17:00 and 06:00 to 15:00. Hours open market only eight hours and no shift merchants. Schedule open in this markets is exactly traditional markets in Manggarai.

No other traditional markets or supermarkets selling vegetables at a radius of 2 km and even more than Queen Victoria. Obviously did not look fierce competition between traditional and mini market manager in this place.

Indonesia has a big room for improvement in doing business in East Asia this year. Indonesia is still in rank 155, compared to Vietnam which is in rank 100 for doing business in the world. As a new emerging market in Asia, getting a higher rank would help to grow the domestic economy in the future.

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Based on Doing Business 2011, Indonesia ranks above the 100 line. This means that doing business in Indonesia is quite hard as compared to Vietnam of South East Asia region. Some indicators that government needs to improve are easing the dealing of construction permits, registering property, getting credit and protecting investors.

Investors need four days and it will cost them IDR200.000 to complete the form on their company details with the Ministry of Law and Rights. To notarize the company document, four days is needed in its completion with cost of IDR2,5 million. Registration of company with the Ministry of Trade takes 15 days with cost of IDR500.000.

In Vietnam, the investor needs 14 days to check the proposed company name. Making the company seal takes 6 days and registration of sea sample will take 4 days at the Department of Police. Registration for trade union takes about 7 days. Total time to complete a business registration in Vietnam takes 53 days, 6 days faster compared to Indonesia which takes 59 days.

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The rank of doing business in Vietnam has improved this year compared to 2010. Vietnam was at 114 last year, jumping to rank 100 in 2011. Indonesia should be able to improve to 154 at least, seeing how it had improved 4 ranks from last year.

Indonesia can probably fix some indicators in doing business to get a higher rank through efforts of shortening registration time in Ministry on Manpower and Ministry of Trade.

The Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries is targeting to increase fishery production by 22.53 million tons in 2014. This is increase of more than 100 percent compared with fish production in 2010 that reached only 10.82 million tons. Climate change has affected the catch by fishermen so how can the ministry increase fishery production?

Minister of Maritime and Fisheries Fadel Muhammad said an increase in fish production has to meet national consumption needs. “I will optimize fishery farm to increase production nationally,” he said.

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