Voices from the market.
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Voices from the market.

Four small business owners at Pasar Baru Bekasi on what has changed — and what stubbornly hasn’t.

Written by
Aris Prasetyo
Contributing Editor
Published
4 March 2026
Read time
6 min read
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We asked four traders at Pasar Baru what has changed in the last five years. We got four different answers. All of them were correct.

The internet did not kill us. It made us learn faster.
Pak Ilham, textile trader
AP
Written by
Aris Prasetyo
Contributing Editor · BekasiGo

Filed on 4 March 2026. The BekasiGo editorial team writes long-form journalism about the city’s neighborhoods, kitchens, rituals, and people.

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