Traditional market, social relations, and diversity of edible plants traded in Beringharjo Market, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract. Iskandar BS, Iskandar J, Mulyanto D, Alfian RL, Suroso. 2021. Traditional market, social relations, and diversity of edible plants traded in Beringharjo Market, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 2012-2024. Although the modern markets have rapidly developed in many cities of Indonesia in the last decades, the urban traditional markets still exist in Indonesia, including Beringharjo Market, Yogyakarta. This study illustrated the story and social relation activities, biodiversity of edible plants traded, and market chain system of edible plant supplies from rural areas to Beringharjo Market. The study was conducted between February and March 2019. The method used in this study was qualitative data with an ethnobotanical approach. Some field techniques, including plant surveys and deep interviews with competent informants, were employed to collect the primary data. The result of this study showed that historically the economic activities of Beringharjo Market had been existing very a long time at least documented in 1758, while the market building was constructed by the Sultanate of Yogyakarta Palace, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono VIII in 1925. Like other traditional markets in Indonesia, the Beringharjo Market has played an important role in developing local economic activities, as the main place for the transaction of various edible plants and meeting for many ethnics, making the important as center of biocultural diversity at the local level. An ethnobotanical survey revealed that 93 edible plant species belonging to 37 families with a total of 159 landraces were commonly traded. The Beringharjo Market has traditionally traded a high diversity of edible plants that are supplied from local farmers productions of Yogyakarta and Central Java. Therefore, this traditional market has an important role in enhancing local economic development and contributing to promoting and conserving local plant diversity in this region.

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“…Traditional markets, characterized by direct retail interactions, emerge from community needs to buy and sell produce. Despite the dominance of modern markets in Indonesia, traditional markets maintain a distinct role (Deanova et al 2021;Iskandar et al 2021). These markets foster symbiotic relationships, intertwining the roles of sellers, the physical marketplace, and livelihoods (Aliyah et al 2017).…”

“…In general, the traditional marketplaces trade in various edible plants as staple foods and traditional medicines (Silalahi et al 2015;Franco et al 2020;Uzun and Koca 2020;Iskandar et al 2021;Nurshillah et al 2022;Asra et al 2023). Plants sold in traditional markets are typically cultivated and wild plant species (Hilonga et al 2019: Zhang et al 2020.…”