ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TANAH ABANG STREET VENDOR ( PKL ) MARKET RELOCATION POLICY TO BLOCK G TANAH ABANG, JAKARTA

• Main Author: Gunawan, Irwanto
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/33978
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The growth of street vendors as informal business sector (PKL) is caused by limited employment in urban formal business sector. The presence of the street vendors can bring two types of impressions. First, it can support the people who can not enter the formal business sector. Second, the street vendors can lead to bad impressions which usually cause a dirty and unorganized urban area. The same condition happens in Jakarta, especially in Tanah Abang Market where the street vendors occupy most of the road. Besides causing a slum area in Jakarta, the use of road by the street vendors leads to congestion on the roads. Jakarta Provincial Government makes effort to regulate the street vendors in order to address congestion and to restore the function of the road and the sidewalk as well. However, by seeing the important role of the street vendors in supporting the local economy, the government then consider not to erase the presence of the street vendor. So that, the government established a relocation policy for the street vendors to move from the road to a new market near the road, named Block G. The policy is expected to empower the business activity of the street vendors while it can also reduce the congestion on the road. The explanation above underlines the arising of a question that how are the impacts of the relocation policy to the street vendors in Tanah Abang Market? A qualitative method is used in this research. The techniques used in data collection,are the observation, in-depth interviews, and the documents (literature) iv review. There are three data collection instruments used in this research which are questionnaires, tape recorders, and cameras. The use of the questionnaire is to obtain opinion from the street vendors participants (traders) about the condition before and after the relocation policy. The Kruskal – Wallis test then is used to statistically test the difference of their opinion. The result showed that the majority of traders are men and have low education level. The welfare of the traders declined after they were relocated to Block G, although the assessments of the trading location (cleanliness, safety, and comfort) are better than when the traders do their business on the sidewalk of the road. The decreasing in welfare of the traders because the low number of buyers which is highly related to the buyers‘ access to Block G. The additional actions to support relocation, which are reducing congestion and constructing new bus stop near Block G, were not able to improve the buyers‘ access to the traders in Block G. There are some barriers affect the low access of the buyers to the traders in Block G, which are : (i) the absence of building facilitations such as escalators, bridges between blocks, and the connector between Tanah Abang Market and train station; (ii) the existence of traders that had been assisted by the society ; (iii) the low number of traders , especially on the 3rd floor of Block G. Furthermore, , communication between Block G Small Trader Forum (FPKBG) with market managers and the government is still informal. The FPKBG had not been properly socialized among the traders . In conclusion, to improve access of buyers to market in Block G, the construction of the escalators, bridges between blocks, and connector to Tanah Abang train station should be prioritized and accelerated. The patterns of communication among the traders, the government, and the FPKBG should be fixed.