Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Structuring measure on facilities of street vendors conducted by Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry has improved the livelihoods of 40.580 people, an official has said.

"If a street vendor has responsibility to feed two children and a wife, the facility structuring program has been able to lift the lives of 40.580 people," deputy to the head of Marketing and Business Network of the Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry, Neddy Rafinaldi Halim said here on Monday.

According to him, structuring measure of the street vendors facilities has also increased the local revenues.

Until 2012, the ministry has restructured business facilities for 10.145 street vendors, grouped in 162 cooperatives located in 139 districts of the country, he stated.
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