Street People Research Articles

Strategi Komunikasi Digital Pada Komunitas Nabung Jalanan Ngawi dan Implikasinya Dalam Program Filantropi Sosial

Digitalization is the key to the growth of a civilization that cannot be ignored. This is because the demands for mastery and use of technology for individuals and organizations are becoming increasingly real due to digital-based market changes. The emergence of digital communication media which is closely related to the internet, has become an active space for people to convey information, receive aspirations and ideas, and be able to offer new, more professional ways. One form of activity that utilizes digital communication media as the main media is social philanthropy activities initiated by the Ngawi Street Savings community. Since 2020, Nabung Jalanan Ngawi has been in existence carrying out social philanthropy actions for street people in the Ngawi Regency area. The aim of this research is to find out what digital communication strategies are carried out by Nabung Jalanan Ngawi and what the implementation process is in social philanthropy programs. This research also uses qualitative methods with a case study approach. The research results show that the key to the success of the digital communication strategy carried out by Nabung Jalanan Ngawi is consistency in posting every donation and activity pamphlet as well as strength in maximizing content management. The use of digital media can make branding Nabung Jalanan Ngawi easier for the wider community. This can support the process of implementing social philanthropy activities to be more systematically planned. The social philanthropy activities that have been carried out by the Nabung Jalanan Ngawi community include sharing free food, distributing suitable clothing to orphanages, distributing free takjil in the month of Ramadhan, and raising funds when a disaster occurs in an area. Nabung Jalanan Ngawi Community utilizes digital media to support the goals of social philanthropy programs to run optimally and evenly.

The Challenges and Opportunities of Underprivileged Urbanized People in Accessing Education: A Case Study in Depok City

Urbanization is one factor influencing poverty in Indonesia’s major cities. Urbanization in Indonesia is characterized by migration of residents from villages to cities to improve their standard of living and try their luck in the city. However, many urbanized people who move from villages to cities need more education and specific skills. As a result, they need help to find easier and more decent jobs, even though cities provide more jobs. This condition causes many urbanized people to end up as underprivileged, such as street people busking at red lights and on the streets. This research aimed to examine the challenges and opportunities faced by underprivileged urbanized people in accessing education. The research used a qualitative case study approach. The participants in this study are urbanized people who move from villages to cities but end up being underprivileged in the cities they attend. Furthermore, the researchers used an interactive data analysis by Morse (1994), comprehending, synthesizing, theorizing and recontextualizing. The findings of this study are expected to provide a true picture of urbanized people and underprivileged people’s education. The results showed that the underprivileged urbanized people in Liu village, Depok face several challenges in fulfilling their education, such as difficulty enrolling their children in public school and paying school fees. Besides their opportunities to access education, they are already aware of government assistance, such as KIP and KDS programs, which allow them to pay their children’s tuition fees with LKS money.

A ministry to at-risk homeless street youths in the central region of Lusaka, Zambia

The study examined the plight of homeless at-risk street youth who patronize the Lusaka Central Business District. Through observation and interaction, it was revealed that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not providing an adequate and holistic ministry to the street youth people group. The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a viable intervention and ministry model that seeks to account for both the physical and spiritual needs of street youth. This model is here dubbed the PSR2D model consisting of meeting physical needs, equipping with skills, reform and rehabilitation, and most importantly, discipleship as a way of reaching the street youth. To adequately and meaningfully minister to at-risk street youths, the researcher used the qualitative method to approach the research process. After examining the problem through data derived from focus groups and observations, the researcher designed and implemented a multi-faceted ministry to reach at-risk street youth and thereby create an entering wedge for discipleship. The program started in December 2023 and was completed in March 2024.

“The street people”: other challenges and perspectives in health, public policies, and communication

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Staff-Facilitated Telemedicine Care Delivery for Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection among People Who Inject Drugs.

Telemedicine offers the opportunity to provide clinical services remotely, thereby bridging geographic distances for people engaged in the medical system. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the widespread adoption of telemedicine in clinical practices has persisted, highlighting its continued relevance for post-pandemic healthcare. Little is known about telemedicine use among people from socially marginalized groups. The No One Waits (NOW) Study is a single-arm clinical trial measuring the acceptability, feasibility, and safety of an urban point-of-diagnosis hepatitis C (HCV) treatment initiation model delivered in a non-clinical community setting. Participants enrolled in the NOW Study are recruited via street outreach targeting people experiencing homelessness and injecting drugs. Throughout the NOW Study, clinical care is delivered through a novel staff-facilitated telemedicine model that not only addresses geographic and transportation barriers, but also technology and medical mistrust, barriers often unique to this population. While clinicians provide high-quality specialty practice-based care via telemedicine, on-site staff provide technical support, aid in communication and rapport, and review the clinicians' instructions and next steps with participants following the visits. Research questionnaires collect information on participants' experience with and perceptions of telemedicine (a) prior to treatment initiation and (b) at treatment completion. For people from socially marginalized groups with HCV infection, creative person-centered care approaches are necessary to diagnose, treat, and cure HCV. Although non-clinical, community-based staff-facilitated telemedicine requires additional resources compared to standard-of-care telemedicine, it could expand the reach and offer a valuable entrance into technology-delivered care for socially marginalized groups. NCT03987503.

A Poisoned Sense of Place: Characterising Spatial Politics in a City: The Case of Cape Town’s Property-Owning Democracy

South Africa is undergoing a rapid decline in social and political cohesion at various scales. This paper explores Cape Town’s experience of socio-territorial messages and identities deployed by the City administration and the leading party, the Democratic Alliance. I focus on relational constructions of the subjectivity of the ‘ratepayer’ and the deserving Capetownian as constructed in the City and the DA’s discourse and policy measures in juxtaposition to ‘street people’ and other supposedly deviant urban subjects and how, as such, the wilful ignorance of the first remains both unchallenged and in service of an exclusionary and unjust spatial order.

KERUGIAN BBM AKIBAT TUNDAAN DAN PANJANG ANTRIAN DI PERSIMPANGAN JALAN RAYA DENGAN REL KERETA API SEBIDANG (Studi Kasus Jalan Hasanudin Semarang)

Due to the high mobility of those passing by and the presence of trains that cross the intersection between the highway and the railroad, also known as level crossings, Jalan Hasanudin experiences heavy traffic during rush hour. Additionally, because of the large volume of train traffic at the Poncol station and the proximity of this intersection to the station, there is frequently a buildup of vehicles at the level crossing on Jalan Hasanudin. As a result, researchers will determine how Jalan Hasanudin Semarang performed. After conducting research, it was discovered that the highest vehicle queue length occurred on Monday, February 27 2023 from Jalan Hasanudin - Imam Bonjol at closing time 16.45 with a queue length of 123 meters and the highest stop delay occurred on Saturday, March 4 2023 from the direction of Jalan Hasanudin - Imam Bonjol with an average stop delay duration of 372.00 seconds. Therefore, the occurrence of long lines led to fuel losses for the drivers; their total gasoline loss over the course of the three research days was IDR 886,550.7. The researchers offer recommendations based on the findings of the research analysis to control street vendors and people near railroad tracks and railroad crossings that result in side barriers and long lines during stop delays, install traffic signs like those that prohibit stopping, prohibit parking, and prohibit raising and lowering passengers on roads, and so that there is no congestion along Jalan Hasanudin and around railroad crossings.

Automated Leopard Alert And Reporting Mechanism Using Deep Learning

Today, rapid infrastructure development is taking place in major metropolitan cities, but unfortunately, this progress often involves the destruction of forest reserves, leaving wild animals homeless. The resulting environmental invasion forces these animals to venture into the cities, posing threats to citizens. In Mumbai, there have been numerous sightings of leopards and other wild animals near forested areas. Leopards have been known to attack street dogs, people, and vehicles, making it necessary to work on this problem. This paper suggests the utilization of deep learning models and object detection techniques to detect leopards and other potential threats. By integrating this technology with security applications, citizens can be made aware of the existence of wild animals in their vicinity. This research primarily focuses on addressing the concern of leopard sightings in Mumbai. The objective is to automate leopard detection and reporting using an object detection algorithm. In the proposed system, images of leopards are collected from an existing dataset available on Roboflow, comprising a total of 1000 samples. The proposed model's performance is evaluated using Mean Average Precision (mAP) & detection speed. The proposed method achieves an impressive mAP of 95.9% at a speed of 37 frames per second.

Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe: A New Approach to Social Protection

ABSTRACT Living in social contexts characterised by poverty and inequality, street young people have limited access to healthcare, water sanitation and hygiene services; exacerbating effects of ill health, infections, lack of nutrition and substance abuse that undermine their wellbeing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, they are also excluded from Social Protection Programmes (SPPs) which potentially assist other impoverished Zimbabweans, two-thirds of whom live below the poverty line (WFP 2019. Zimbabwe Annual Country Report 2019. World Food Programme). In this paper, we propose a reassessment of SPPs, in particular the Assisted Medical Treatment Order (AMTO), identifying barriers to access, and benefits for extending access to street young people . Drawing on secondary analysis of data from Growing up on the Streets, this paper re-conceptualises Ingrid Robeyns’ (2005. “The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey.” Journal of Human Development 6 (1): 93–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/146498805200034266) model of capabilities and applies it to the reversal of street youth exclusion and the application of government-targeted initiatives which have failed to reach those in the most vulnerable situations. In so doing, we propose an adapted model which recognises how the capabilities of street young people are enhanced when they are integrated into SPPs. This adapted model can be replicated and applied to relevant interventions for other groups of marginalised people in across contexts.

Crisis temporalities and ongoing capabilities in the lives of young people growing up on the streets of African cities: An ethnographic longitudinal perspective

AbstractUnderstanding young people's lives through a focus on their micro‐geographies has been central for exercising young people's voices through research. However, such a focus has also neglected the multiple and complex realities of growing up that ripple throughout their lives, resulting in calls for more research to go beyond capturing daily snapshots of experience. This paper acknowledges that decades of research with and for young people living on city streets has underpinned activism and challenged western child rights discourse, helping to ensure that abuses and violations of street young people's rights are confronted. Yet, much of this research draws attention to lives lived in present moments – the difficulties encountered and capabilities displayed. It does not account for the temporal fluidity of how young people's realities are future impacted by slow crises and challenging daily life experiences as they grow towards adulthood. This paper explores the crisis temporalities of young people's street lives through a youth‐led ethnographic longitudinal approach. The paper focuses on 18 youth researchers and over 200 of their peers' experiences of research over three years while living on the streets of three African cities. The paper discusses the challenges of undertaking longitudinal research alongside the temporal affordances of surviving urban informality and the compounding effects of slow crises on present and future‐oriented survival. These affordances emerge as street youth respond to daily trials, experience setbacks, crises, triumphs, and failures, yet show resilience and employ capabilities. The paper concludes by demonstrating the crucial importance of ethnographic longitudinal research for policy and practice to ensure that youth who age on the streets, and their families, are supported in accordance with social justice concerns.

Unmet needs in street homeless people: a commentary on multiple interconnected needs in a vulnerable group

Street homeless people face stigmas in addition multiple unmet needs, which may include physical, psychological, mental health and social needs to name a few. Their life expectancy is shorter than that of the general population. Mental health problems are common but street homeless people face considerable barriers accessing support. Institutional approaches from the health system re-traumatise street homeless people seeking care and cause moral injury and burn-out in staff. Given high rates of trauma in street homeless people, trauma-informed care approaches should be used. Professionals should make every contact count, using it as an opportunity to build trust with honesty and consistency and find out what matters to the person, as well as taking practical steps such as ensuring a means of contact. Engaging with the person's wider support system, such as support workers from homeless organisations, is key as they may have a good understanding how the mental health affects the person.

The Isaiah of the 20th century – Korczak’s utopia of all men solidarity

Korczak scholars deal mainly with his pedagogy, extensive writings, the legacy of his two children’s homes, and the tragic end of Korczak and his Jewish children in the Holocaust. Less attention is given to his humanistic worldview. Korczak, who claimed that the child is a human being here and now, not a man in the making, developed a philosophy that places the child, as any other human being, in his broad understanding of Humanity. This study aims to explore Korczak’s utopian idea of one united Humanity. As a Jew, Korczak knew the price people pay for these historical divisions. This study shows that, like other Jewish intellectuals of modernity, Korczak envisioned a reality of all men’s unity and solidarity. Korczak was not blind to the political, cultural, and social realities of the 20th century. Antisemitic ideas were present in interwar Poland, as in other European countries, yet, he hoped that the world of men is mendable. One day, all people of the world will unite around the cause of the child. A renewed reading of Korczak’s texts, including his exchange of letters with his friends in Palestine, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land of the Christians, and his impressions from his two visits to Palestine showed his broad universal view. A renewed reading of his classic novel, King Matt the First, would reveal, besides the idea of a children’s kingdom, the idea that Europeans, Africans and Asians, boys and girls, rich and street people, can live together in peace. It is possible if they would go beyond political rivalries, greediness for power and money, admiration of military might, and social prejudices. The Kingdom of Matt failed. Society is not ready for such a worldview. Korczak’s words like the Biblical prophecies of Isaiah, remained unfulfilled, but we, living in a troubling era, must hope that one day, “at the end of days,” they will become a reality.

Patterns of streets connection for sustainable urban development in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

Street network attributes, including street connectivity, street integration, and pedestrian accessibility, are closely interrelated concepts that play an important role in achieving the sustainable approach challenges facing all large cities throughout the world. However, the lack of awareness of sustainable development in both the city center and villages in the suburban area results in a low value of street connectivity, less direct route to the destination, and discouraging pedestrians from moving. This research aims to examine street connectivity and street integration patterns that form from street connections at existing streets in Kota Bharu Kelantan. DepthmapX software was used to analyze street connectivity and integrations to identify and compare the existing street influencing people to move from one destination to another in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The streets in the Kota Bharu, Kelantan city center area are chosen as the study site to investigate the street connectivity and integration values. Data analysis using DepthmapX software was performed after digitizing the map in AutoCAD software. Findings show that street connectivity and integration are of higher value when the streets are well connected to other streets in the main area and attraction area. The conclusions of this paper can help landscape architects and urban planners optimize the achievement of well-connected street networks that produce directness routes in short-distance destinations to develop a sustainable urban environment.

Research into the Visual Saliency of Guide Signs in an Underground Commercial Street Based on an Eye-Movement Experiment

The complex spatial environment of underground commercial street spaces will affect users’ behavior and information needs. As a medium to coordinate the interaction between the underground commercial street space environment and people, guide signs can provide useful information for users. However, the visual saliency of guide signs is the fundamental premise for determining the transmission of information to users. Based on field research, this study identified and examined the factors influencing the significance of guide signs in underground commercial streets from the user’s perspective using the order relation analysis method (G1 method) and with the help of screen-based eye tracking and virtual reality (VR) eye-tracking technology, In addition, we explored the design relationship between critical influencing factors and the space between underground commercial streets, and the visual significance of the differences between each important influencing variable. The study showed that the set position, set height, and design color of underground commercial street guide signs are essential factors in their visual prominence. The prominence was more significant when the position of guide signs was located in the middle and upper area of the space, and the prominence was more significant when the set height was 2.56~2.75 m and 3.12~3.31 m. This study can provide data and theoretical support for the visual saliency design of underground commercial street guide signs and provide a reference for the humanized design of underground commercial street guide signs for public facilities in cities.

Nomadic Bedes are Experiencing Identity Crisis and Shifting of their Traditional Habitats in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries, with various ethnic communities scattered throughout the nation. The nomadic Bede are an ancient ethnic group that has traditionally lived, traveled, and earned their livelihood in Bengal's riverine systems. Snake charming is one of the main ways they make money. However, most of the Bedes are changing their inheriting characteristics of riverine system to a new habitat. The purpose of the study is to identify the actual scenario of the Bede community in selected areas of Bangladesh. The study revealed that Bedes are changing their traditional way of life by moving from boats to temporary land, where they live in a small collection of huts and makeshift homes for a long time. Few of them were still engaged in their traditional occupations, such as snake charming and selling ethno-medicines; however, the majority relied on the begging in the street by bluffing the street people or make the people fool or engage with other jobs to make ends meet. Although contemporary technology has brought new sorts of entertainment, decreasing the incentive for Bede’s to work, less Bedes may have been active in snake charming as a means of continuing their parental profession. Importantly, the young generations are not interested in their nomadic Bede life and few of them are doing snake-charming and other forms of traditional entertainment for a living. The mainstream of society does not accept them cordially due to their cultural, ritual, and occupational differences. As a whole, the Bede people lived below the poverty line, making them very vulnerable in the society and experiencing an identity crisis. The Bede community requires the government and human rights organizations' help to secure their house, make it easier for them to get work, and ensure their health and education so th5at they may survive as a people in the society's mainstream. This is a preliminary study that attempted to identify the reality of the Bede community in a small representative part of Bangladesh. Future study is needed to discover more information about the Bede community that lives around the country.

A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow

Understanding of how time is experienced is essential when conducting qualitative research. This article explores how time seemingly stands still, speeds up, slows down, rewinds and fast-forwards for the participants in our qualitative investigations. Drawing upon interview data with street homeless people in Moscow, Russia, this article examines the ways in which time is contextualized and used by research participants to make sense of their everyday experiences and important events in their lives. There is a tendency to understand time by measuring it, rather than seeing it as something within which lived experience happens and qualitative research is carried out. Drawing on Bergson’s conception of time as duration, this article examines the ways in which time can be distinctively used and understood within qualitative research.

Analisis Peraturan Daerah Kota Makassar tentang Pembinaan Anak Jalanan, Gelandangan, Pengemis, dan Pengamen

Based on Article 34 Paragraph 1 of the 1945 Constitution of the State of the Republic of Indonesia, the Law on Human Rights, the Law on Child Protection, and the Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Number 36 of 1990 concerning the Enforcement of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, basically it provides protection for street children, homeless people, and beggars in Indonesia. This includes Makassar City. In Makassar itself, several regulations have been established as a form of implementation in the regions, such as: Makassar City Regional Regulation Number 2 of 2008, then Makassar City Regulation Number 3 of 2009, along with Mayor Regulation Number 87 of 2016. As a form of implementation, the government has brought order community by taking preventive and repressive measures. The government deployed Civil Service Police Unit officers in the regions to carry out rehabilitation and raids on the homeless with one goal, to provide guidance. All this is done with the hope that they do not return to the streets, and can carry out their social functions in society. This study used a descriptive analysis type of research, with a normative sociological-juridical approach. That is research conducted by abstracting social phenomena, concepts, principles, doctrines, theories, legal norms and legal rules (written and unwritten) in addition to values, principles, norms and rules that will be described in relation to by fostering street children, homeless people, beggars and buskers.

The effect of eye-level street greenness exposure on walking satisfaction: The mediating role of noise and PM2.5

While there are plenty of studies on the effects of neighborhood and park greenness on personal overall satisfaction and walking behavior, the relationship between street greenness exposure and walking satisfaction has received limited attention. Also, the possible pathways by which street greenness exposure affects walking satisfaction need to be further examined. To fill these research gaps, we measured eye-level street greenness using street view images, machine learning techniques and global position systems. A structural equation model was used to examine the mediating effects of objective noise and PM2.5 exposure and related subjective annoyance, on the relationship between street greenness exposure and people’s walking satisfaction. The results showed that street greenness exposure not only had a significant direct effect on walking satisfaction, but also has a significant indirect effect on walking satisfaction through subjective environmental annoyances (including noise and PM2.5 annoyances) rather than through objective noise and PM2.5 exposures. Besides physical activity and social interaction, the indirect effect of street greenness exposure on walking satisfaction through subjective environmental pollution annoyance accounted for about 17.39% of the total effect and cannot be ignored. These results suggest that the urban greenness layout policy should not only consider residential greenness but should improve people’s environmental perception and walking satisfaction by allocating more greenness on streets with high noise and PM2.5 levels.

POLICY ANALYSIS OF STREET CHILDREN, HOMELESS PEOPLE AND BEGGARSIN BANDAR LAMPUNG CITY

This research is motivated by the enactment of Regional Regulation No. 03 of 2010 concerning the Guidance of Street Children, Homeless people and Beggars. in the city of Bandar Lampung. The regulation has been in effect since 2010 but until now there are still many street children, homeless people and buskers in Bandar Lampung City. The purpose of this research is to analyze how the implementation of the Regional Regulation No. 03 of 2010. This type of research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. This research was conducted using the method of collecting through interviews, documentation and observation. The data analysis technique used in this research is data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. The results showed that the implementation of Regional Regulation No. 03 of 2010 concerning the development of street children, homeless people and buskers has not gone well because of the large number of street children and the lack of socialization and counseling carried out by the Social Service regarding the prohibition of giving money on the streets to street children, homeless people. and buskers so that people still carry out these activities. As well as the lack of ability of the Bandar Lampung City Social Service in fostering street children, homeless people and buskers who have been caught in raids.

A Conceptualisation of Defining and Computing the Street Edge: Constitutedness | Permeability | Intervisibility

The micro-level approach to transformations in urban morphology is the current leading area of study. It captures the significant soft grain of the street edge and its function. The pattern (edge-edge interface) is controlled by morphological analyses that are based on two primary urban elements: Plots and blocks. In addition, the street edge represents the link between two realms – the private and public - and defines their interrelationship. Three indicators (constitutedness, permeability and intervisibility) formulate the degree of interaction, whether between street edge ingredients or people and the adjacent edge. The main aims of this paper are to highlight the characteristics of the street edge and to compute and derive an equation for the three indicators. The paper adopts a morphological and analytical method in order to trace the primary purpose of the research with greater concentration on the micro-level scale. A quantitative technique is used to formulate the main equations and significant results are extracted regarding the specific morphological properties of the edge. Thus, the main contribution of this research is the development of knowledge that quantitatively determines the attributes of the street edge.