Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the negotiation between the “formal” and the “informal” urban space in Jakarta through the examination of use of space of marginalized transportation of bajaj – a three-wheeled public transportation. Bajaj drivers continuously and creatively create their use of space and territory as the result of the limitation of space. Creativity in using space emerges as a way to get available space and this activity results in the appropriation of urban space. The basis of such appropriation is how to survive in urban space and such condition is characterized by negotiation, flexibility and adaptability. In high-density Jakarta city, it is necessary for bajaj drivers – who have only limited possibility in using strategic urban space – to use both the formal and the informal to sustain the city at large. An analysis of how bajaj drivers negotiated urban spaces around Manggarai Station reveals the appropriation of urban space that relies on temporality, tactics and negotiation of rules of access among users. In this paper, we analyze how urban informality as an ‘organizing logic’ results in a specific mode of the production of space. The analysis of negotiations of space around Manggarai Station is intended to contribute to an understanding of how informal and negotiated spaces, which shape everyday life in the city, are inseparable parts of formal and designed spaces in the city of Jakarta.
Highlights
Jakarta as the biggest city in Indonesia faces some problems related to social and spatial effect of integrated transportation systems and informal activities
Negotiated Urban Space at Manggarai Station Jakarta those usually seen as leftover space and considered bad for the city image, are a part of the mosaics of urban life
Based on the discussion on informal activities at Manggarai Station, bajaj drivers manage their business by occupying leftover urban space at the station
Summary
Jakarta as the biggest city in Indonesia faces some problems related to social and spatial effect of integrated transportation systems and informal activities. Planners and governments may only have few attentions to informal activities in planning the city because informality is often related to phenomena that take place outside formal processes (Roy 2004). Various situations may be included in informality such as spontaneous processes of occupation of the territory, temporary uses of space, and some forms of self-organization of urban areas. Social-dynamics happen in urban spaces and among various actors in the city can be understood by city‟s structures and elements of interaction that creates many events in urban life with unique characteristic so that those events can be positive (Kudva, 2009). The idea of kinetic urban area may be understood as an entity made up of informal activities that may include the multiple uses of urban condition and changing spatial forms such as informal space that is created over time. Some research even has been done to analyze the alternative methods of sharing city spaces
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