Abstract
Street vendors are some of informal sector business actors who are directly related to city government policy. Illegal street vendors as one type of street vendors often get ill-treatment from the city government. It is because in running the business, street vendors occupy public space, such as sidewalks and shoulders, so they are disciplined. Through this phenomena, this study aimed to analyze (1) survival strategy done by street vendors and (2) reasons by street vendors in using public space as a place to trade. Those objectives were further described by employing qualitative descriptive method with data collection technique through interviews and observations. Once the data have been collected, they were analyzed qualitatively interactively. From the research results, it can be concluded. First, being a street vendor for low-level society is the only option and is the most viable way to sustain their lives. Some street vendors do survival strategy in order to meet the needs of everyday life. Second, street vendors use public spaces such as roadsides and sidewalks because (1) there are limitations which make them impossible to occupy locations with obligations to pay, (2) roads and sidewalks are strategic places to peddle merchandise; and (3) lack of attention from government to the needs and welfare of street vendors.
Highlights
Urbanization brings major problems in Asian countries such as China, India and Indonesia
This type of research was chosen because the writer looked forward to providing understanding, explanation, and theory about the social behavior of street vendors, giving understanding regarding the complexity of behavior, needs, systems, and culture that develops among street vendors
There are many cases of marginalized or displaced persons defend their homes, or workplaces and means of production for income. Farmers defend their fields or rice fields, retirees maintain their old residential or dormitory homes, residents defend the residential homes they have occupied for years even though it has been proved that the land used up so far does not belong to them, the fishermen desperate to go out to sea in unfriendly seasons despite being banned by the local government, people near the forest desperately take tubers or fruits because that's how they can eat, and street vendors still insist on trading in places has long been used to earn a fortune even if it is prohibited and even evicted by the local government
Summary
Urbanization brings major problems in Asian countries such as China, India and Indonesia. In common big cities in Asia, it is estimated that every day there are 120,000 residents increase the population density (Roberts and Kanaley 2006). In addition to increasing city density, urbanization provides several benefits such as providing opportunities for millionsof people and reducing poverty (Roberts and Kanaley 2006). Urbanization in big cities is a heaven for investors to invest their shares in economic activities. They can participate by giving investment in the construction of housing or real estate, become the main shareholders of the mall business, become promoters of the construction of entertainment venues, or develop a hospitality business. The investment in formal sector activities is mostly accepted and facilitated by the district or city head
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