In this day together with the changes of time, a shopping center which often called mall become more and more in Bandung. Many people need it for shopping or just hanging around with their friends or families. Seeing this condition, developers make the best the use of building malls as many as possible pretending do not want to know what the effect of it in a long time after. Unfortunately, there is no action from the government itself to help this condition and to organize urban development better. Although malls have many advantages, but it will give bad advantages if there are too many malls in Bandung.
Talking about the advantages of malls, people will have many of it. Malls give an easier way to have one stop shopping, especially for people who are very busy and do not have a lot of time for moving from one place to another to shop. It is not only adult or teenagers who enjoy go to mall, but also children enjoy it too. We can see there are many parents bring their children to have fun and play in mall especially mall which has a big playground. As if it is not enough yet, malls also provide day nursery place. Besides, malls also provide job and it gives exchange to government so, the more malls in Bandung the more people can get a job and also the more government get exchange. Unfortunately, people forget about the bad effect from the mall. The problem here is that there are too many malls built in Bandung. It causes traffic jam everywhere. Bandung is not like it used to because wherever we go there are always traffic jam just like in Jakarta, especially when holiday, people from outside Bandung come for shopping. They visit different malls and it makes traffic jam in different areas too. It also makes people become consumerism. They buy many things that unnecessary when they are shopping in malls because many stores in malls offer things.
The more malls in Bandung the more energy too needed. Malls absolutely need big power of electricity and it also releases gas from the air conditioner that gives bad effect to the environment. Bandung is not green as used to anymore, it become dirtier by pollution. We must know that those developers build more and more malls in green areas. So that we loose many of green areas, and it means that we loose our healthy environment too. Those developers damage the mother earth’s living by building so many malls that release bad effect to the environment. It just the same like they add more global warming in this earth. They really do not think about the longer future of this environment by reducing the city’s green area.
Before there is mall, there is already traditional market. But now, people prefer to choose to shop in mall than in traditional market. So, malls are threatening traditional markets. They broke the trade in traditional market. This also reflects the life style of people now. They choose to shop in malls because they think it is more elite. So there is a point of view in people that those who shop or go to the mall are those who have much money, they are those who come from a high society class. So it causes a social gap.
In conclusion, I still believe that the more malls in Bandung will give many disadvantages as I mentioned above. Although it has some advantages but there are also many disadvantages that people must not ignore. So, I do really expect that government will have a better policy about this problem, they should not think only about their benefit. Besides there is an aphorism says, “the sick city is a city that has malls a lot."
By Larasati A. (060301), 2006 English Literature student of Indonesia University of Education.
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