Tulisan ttg preman berikut pungli thd sektor informal yg dimuat di the Jakarta Post hari Senin kemarin: http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20070514.E04
Dalam tulisan tsb, sayangnya belum dimasukkan ketentuan dari UUPR pasal 28 ttg alokasi ruang untuk sektor informal. Deden Rukmana ----- Original Message ---- From: Haryasetyaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:29:38 AM Subject: Re: [referensi] Adakah sisi RUTR bagi sektor informal? yg jela 'penertiban' PKL pada umumnya berlandaskan Perda Ketertiban atau sejenisnya di daerah masing-2.. sepertinya pasal tsb mengamanatkan bahwa di setiap kota perlu ada rencana lokasi sektor informal (yg kata ILO ga ada itu...). ada ga UU/institusi yg cukup bergigi memberantas Pungli...?? sepertinya itu yg lebih kita perlukan.. salam, -K- Mohon izin pak Deden saya sebarluaskan artikelnya... ------- Extortion exacerbates urban poverty Monday, May 14, 2007 Deden Rukmana, Jakarta On May 4, 2007, The Jakarta Post reported that street vendors in Kebayoran Lama market in South Jakarta are extorted by thugs who have been trawling the market since the early 1980s. The street vendors are forced to pay US$0.30 a day and an additional $2.20 a month to the thugs -- supposedly as "security and cleaning fees". A police officer assigned to the area claimed to be unaware such extortion was taking place, and asserted that the market was safe. This practice of thugs extorting street vendors is a serious threat to alleviating urban poverty. The World Bank reported that there were 108.78 million Indonesian poor in 2006, meaning they live on less than $2 a day. Seventy-five percent of these people work in the informal sector, including street vendors. The presence of an informal jobs sector is a distinctive characteristic of cities in developing countries, since the formal sector can not accommodate the large number of people in the labor force. Due to limited employment opportunities in the formal sector, most people with few skills and little education will end up in the informal sector as they attempt to make a living. In many developing countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the informal sector accounts for most of the total employment. In 2004, the informal sector in Indonesia accounted for 64 percent of total employment. The proportion of the informal sector in urban areas was even higher during the economic crisis in the late 1990s, when the closure of many manufacturing and service corporations pushed the newly unemployed into the informal sector. The informal sector is an important part of the economy of Jakarta. Not only does this sector provide employment for the low skilled poor but also provides affordable goods for the poor. In many cases, many middle-class people in urban areas also greatly benefit from economic activities carried out outside the formal sectors. The informal sector is a mode of urban transformation that links various economic activities and spaces in urban areas. The informal sector operating on streets and other public places is often seen as an eyesore and an undesirable activity. There have been a lot of conflicts between urban authorities trying to keep their cities clean and the urban informal sectors that need space for their activities. In many cases, the urban authorities have forcibly evicted the urban informal sectors in the name of urban order and cleanliness. Hernando de Soto argues that the solution to poverty is the formalization of the informal sector. According to de Soto, evictions will not address the poverty associated with the informal sector. Eviction will only relocate the problem and even exaggerate the conflicts between urban authorities and the informal sectors. De Soto's solution to the poverty associated with the informal sector is to provide tenure security for the informal sector to carry out its activities. De Soto's solution is not impossible to implement. The informal sector is neither an illegal sector nor a black market sector. There should be room to integrate the informal sector into the process of urban transformation. There should be a way to reconcile the public's right to enjoy public spaces and the right of street vendors to have a stable income-generating occupation. Both rights should be taken into consideration in urban planning. >From an urban environmental perspective, a study by Perera and Amin (1996) reported that environmental problems associated with the informal sector are not attributes inherent to the informal sector but manifestations of unresponsive urban planning. The provision of space to the informal sector is an effective measure to reduce the environmental problems associated with this sector. Since street vendors make up a large portion of the urban poor population, an effective way of alleviating poverty in urban areas is to secure a stable income-generating occupation for the street vendors. Street vendors should neither work under the threat of eviction nor pay illegal fees to the thugs. The street vendors are most probably willing to pay legal fees to the city authorities to secure their place of work, but not illegal fees to thugs. These fees paid to thugs will not secure from eviction by the authorities. It will only exacerbate the poverty of the street vendors. The writer is an assistant professor of urban studies at Savannah State University in the U.S. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harya Setyaka Duren Tiga Selatan 89 Jakarta INDONESIA ----- Original Message ---- From: Mulya Amri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 5:07:50 PM Subject: Re: [referensi] Adakah sisi RUTR bagi sektor informal? Trims Mas Catuy! Dengan adanya pasal ini, apakah sudah bisa disebut bahwa penggusuran PKL itu bertentangan dengan UUPR? Terima kasih, Muli. ----- Original Message ----- From: Deden Rukmana To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [referensi] Adakah sisi RUTR bagi sektor informal? Wow! Mas Catuy, trims atas kejeliannya utk mencarikan pasal di UUPR ttg sektor informal. Ini mestinya terus dikembangkan dlm PPs dari UUPR ini. Kalau kita lihat pada tahun 1960s dulu, ketika Paul Davidoff mengembangkan advocacy planning, sepertinya peran perencana ruang di Indonesia di tahun2 mendatang bisa sukses utk mengadvokasi pelaku sektor informal mendapatkan ruang di perkotaan bagi usahanya. Pasal 28 UUPR ini bisa merupakan awal baik bagi perjuangan sektor informal di masa2 mendatang. Deden Rukmana ----- Original Message ---- From: Elkana Catur Hardiansah <elkana.catur@ gmail.com> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:30:27 AM Subject: Re: [referensi] Adakah sisi RUTR bagi sektor informal? sekedar informasi tambahan ini saya kutip dari UU 26 tahun 2007 tentang penataan ruang pasal 28 (baru ditelisik) Ketentuan perencanaan tata ruang wilayah kabupaten sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 25, Pasal 26, dan Pasal 27 berlaku mutatis mutandis untuk perencanaan tata ruang wilayah kota, dengan ketentuan selain rincian dalam Pasal 26 ayat (1) ditambahkan: a. rencana penyediaan dan pemanfaatan ruang terbuka hijau; b. rencana penyediaan dan pemanfaatan ruang terbuka nonhijau; dan c. rencana penyediaan dan pemanfaatan prasarana dan sarana jaringan pejalan kaki, angkutan umum, kegiatan sektor informal, dan ruang evakuasi bencana, yang dibutuhkan untuk menjalankan fungsi wilayah kota sebagai pusat pelayanan sosial ekonomi dan pusat pertumbuhan wilayah. -- Elkana Catur Hardiansah development analyst http://catuy. blogspot. com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. 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