Street Vendor Governance in the Dimensions of Democracy, Collaboration, and Trust

Abstract

The City of Bandung has become a trading center, where one of its trades is Street Vendors. The complex problem regarding Street Vendors requires a comprehensive and integrated solution that is carried out democratically, collaboratively, and also mutually trusted by every stakeholder as the New Public Service offers. This research used a mixed-method approach. The determination of the respondents was carried out through purposive sampling. As an analysis unit in this study, the Street Vendors Task Force, Street Vendors organizations, and the street vendors themselves. The research data source consisted of secondary data and primary data. Secondary data was obtained from legal product reviews, planning documents, and budgeting. Meanwhile, primary data was carried out by using two methods, which were qualitative and quantitative methods related to democracy, collaboration, and mutual trust. From the research results, it could be concluded that the governance of street vendors has not yet run ideally. From the democratic aspect, it was shown a process of professional policy shift dynamics. Moreover, it affected the change in attitudes and work ethics of the Special Task Force, which was more humane and oriented toward the public interest. Likewise, law enforcement and policy legitimacy had been carried out more objectively and proportionally, as well as it adjusted to the dynamics within the field. The collaboration aspect was already underway by involving every stakeholder in the Street Vendors’ governance. Meanwhile, from the mutual trust aspect, the facts in the field have not yet been realized, and rigid regulations and behavior still bind each party based on the act of business as usual.