Padang – Some 7,000 members of the Padang Market Traders Association (KPP) held a protest against the Padang municipality's plan to build a shopping mall on the site of the Goan Hoat bus terminal, located near Pasar Raya market.

The plan will likely have a serious impact on the traders, as it will block people's access to the market.

Chairman of KPP, Irzal Mudazir, said that the plan to turn the terminal into a shopping mall would mostly affect medium and small scale traders.

The association has conveyed their objections to Padang Mayor Fauzi Bahar and the municipal council, but there has been no response as yet.