Social Development in the Urban Informal Sector: A Case Study of Street Vendors in Pasar Minggu, Jakarta

Abstract

This article seeks to provide an alternative solutions for development for the informal street vendors in South Jakarta, with special focus on markets in the district of Pasar Minggu . Street vendors (PKL) often deal directly with government policies such as the arrest and confiscations , but on the other hand street vendors are able to safeguard and contribute to the economy of the urban poor. The social development framework with structural, cultural and process elements emphasizes the inclusiveness of development to improve the quality of life of the community as a whole. Social development offers the concept of a social process that is more flexible in establishing dialogue between policy holders and the community so that it can result in to a new culture (internalization) and new regulations (institutionalization). This article combines qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the meaning of street vendors in dealing with structuring and measuring the levels or achievements obtained from the existing dynamics of the structure, culture and social processes. This study reveals that both political and social structures in the case of street vendors ha ve not been provided . T he absence of policies issued by the government to support the PKL economy was the reflection of such problem . However, there have been evidence that the government started to focus on the minimization of acts of violence in the process of controlling street vendors and began to instill the values ​​of cleanliness and regularity in street vendors' behavior. This was accompanied with the enhancing of the social process characterized by the existence of deliberations with the limited number of the representations of the street vendors.