Pasar Tanah Abang Blok A
Vast wholesale textile hall of nearly eight thousand kiosks, buzzing with porters and bulk buyers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pasar Tanah Abang Blok A in Jakarta follows the people who make the city's great textile market run: the porters in green shirts, the package guards at the doors, and the West Sumatran families who pass their kiosks down a generation. It reaches out to the cramped sewing rooms of north Jakarta where the stock begins, and back to the fire of two thousand three. Best heard standing near a busy stall, watching parcels go out.
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