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Wanda YOVITA
Graduate Student, Architecture, SAPPK, Institute Technology of Bandung - INDONESIA
wandayov@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Public open space which main function is to accommodate people’s
activities is an essential element to form the characteristics of the city. Number of
people who come and do various activities at the space is one of the success
design parameters of a public open space. In many big cities of the developing
countries where the urbanization rate is very high, the initially designed functions
of a city open space may often changed due to of the presence of street vendors to
start their business. The presence of street vendors in the open space will
indirectly stimulate more people to come, which eventually construct a new socio-
temporal space that liven up the people activities in the city. This, however, may
also raise some problems related to the beauty and cleanliness of the city. To the
stakeholders this is the problem rather than business potential, for them it should
be terminated rather than managed.
Gasibu square Bandung is one of the city's open space facing this
problem. Initially designed as a community sports facilities, this place is now
changed to chaotic street vendor market people visited on Sunday. Various
activities and socioeconomic characteristics of traders and visitors at the Gasibu
market prove that Gasibu has succesfully accommodated people activities leading
to the improvement of micro economy. The existence of Gasibu market with its
slum an chaotic image, on the other hand, has ruined the beautiful image of
Bandung.
Through a comparative study of similar problems in the cities of Malang,
Surabaya, and Solo, this paper aims to show that through creative management in
collaboration between the stake holders involved, the problems arising from the
activities of street vendors in the open space can be minimized. Collaborative
management is able to maximize the various potentials existing in the space to
grow without causing negative effect to the city.
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presence of vendors from outside the city showed that Bandung has become a
destination of city urbanization, with the market Gasibu week as one of attractive
factor in creating employment.
Traffic jam on road sections through Gasibu Square almost certainly always
happens every Sunday. Behavior of vendors who lay their goods along with road
shoulder effects the blocking the traffic. Gasibu’s district also does not have a
special parking area for visitors, so many vehicles on the road park everywhere
and increase the congestion on road sections, especially on Surapati street in front
of the Gasibu square.
Cleanliness is another issue to complain about. After the Gasibu Sunday market
ended at the afternoon, the vendors left the food and beverage waste from the rest
of the business especially from from food stalls and groceries. This problem also
comes from visitor because lack of awareness of cleanliness or there is no trash
can available on the site.
Based on direct interviews with some vendors in the Gasibu Sunday market, the
management of this market using premanism. Vendors pay their stall daily to
certain unofficial person, who has coordinated the distribution of lands to be used
by vendors. At first vendors also pay for the rental offering of approximately Rp.
800,000 for space sized 2x2 meters. Coordinator of leasing land to trade does not
regulate how the deal of each other stall so that the chaos among vendors stall was
not inevitable. On the Gasibu Sunday market there is no detailed territorial
distribution between the various functions of the vendors. Vendors used varety
types of stall. Some are using tents, lay the goods based with mat direct to the
ground, or sold mobile to the buyers.
For most people, the problem of slums, chaos and density of Gasibu Sunday
market are negative things that inhibit their desire to shop. Nevertheless, the
variety and prices of merchandise in this market is a major attractor for the
hundreds or thousands of Bandung people as well as migrants from outside the
city. This indicates that the management of this market without a plan for a
comfortable space for vendors and buyers, but this market could become an urban
space for the community in an urban scale. Economic aspects, tourism and leisure
can be accomodated by this market space. Gasibu Sunday market is an even
greater potential for society and the government when there is proper and
sustainable management.
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Figure 5. Shoppiing atmosphere at
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Source: private documentation,, 2010 innformation related to this markeet
Souurce: private doccumentation, 2010
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be lost.
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respective trade areas, and clearing merchandise after the event was over so the
the road of Semeru can get back on the original function promptly at 13:00 pm.
Thus, until now Tugu market activities run smoothly and be able to move the
micro economy in addition to being one of the options in Malang city tour that
interests the public. This activity is also able to provide benefits for local
government of Malang in the form of levies amounting to Rp 5000 per vendor per
week.
Kya-Kya Kembang Jepun, Surabaya
Kembang Jepun street area is in the Chinatown area since 1900, and until recently
famous for its trading activities. The buildings that stand along this road is a
conservation building, with art deco style of colonial heritage and the traditional
architecture of China. In early 2003, the city government of Surabaya plans to
liven up the night of corridors of Kembang Jepun street by concentrating food
vendors on this street corridor and make a culinary tourism center. However, due
to lack of planning, this effort failed and was not well received by the public.
Furthermore, by the suggestion of Dahlan Iskan, the initial concept of Kembang
Jepun culinary tourism center was developed with a better planned. The idea is to
raise the sense of place that has been owned by Kembang Jepun street as
Chinatown area, by implementing the traditional nuance of traditional China in the
design of the culinary tourism center. The concept embodied by the theme
continuity between the design, including the provision of clean water, electricity
utilities and also the packaging events. The management of this area handed by
PT. Kya-Kya Kembang Jepun, such a private company. Furthermore, since the
date 31 May 2003, the road of Kembang Jepun was closed from 18.00-02.00
o'clock pm and opened to public as a culinary tourism center with chinese cultural
background.
A total of 182 traders and street vendors participate in this event. They occupied a
position on the sidewalk, while the middle path laid out tables and chairs. To joint
this event, the vendors must pay Rp 500,000 per month including the cleaning fee,
for the booth rent. Since the opening, the culinary center of Kya-Kya get very
festive greeting from the public of Surabaya and its surrounding cities. Another
uniqueness of the management of Kya-Kya culinary tourism is that they not only
providing food, but also display cultural attractions as the entertainment at certain
times. In providing the cultural attractions, they held a collaboration with the
local communities such as youth clubs, and cultural arts groups. Through to this
management, Kya-kya Kembang Jepun culinary center activities had gaining a
result in providing employment opportunities, mobilizing the public economy, and
providing such an income for the government of Surabaya, and also able to
become one of the icon of culinary tourism in Surabaya.
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CONCLUSION
Through phenomenon that occurs in the case of study which is Gasibu Square and
other three places that has been discussed is known that the presence of vendors in
the public space of the city has the ability to attract people to come and do some
activities together. These activities can liven up the activity and atmosphere of the
city both during the day or night. With the right approach, problems arise as a side
effect of the activities of vendors and the public in public spaces will be
minimized, even the existence of vendors can be optimized and used as a tourist
destination.
The experience of several cities that are considered capable of improving
environmental quality and public spaces can be implemented in weeks Gasibu
market in Bandung. The success of the arrangement of street vendors on public
open space that has been carried out on the town of Malang, Surabaya, and Solo
was essentially derived from the cooperation and organization of street vendors
with city government. By embracing the organization of street vendors, the
aspirations of vendors will be involved in the arrangement and planning of public
space, so that conflicts between officials and vendors can be minimized.
Furthermore, coordination and collaboration can facilitate the completion of the
impact of this market such as cleanliness and congestion problems. If vendors
have good coordination and clear territory to trade, then the settings of cleanliness
can be given to vendors itself. Congestion can be minimized with the shift of the
main road to alternative road for a while for the vehicle or restrict vendors to not
use the shoulder of the road. Concrete steps taken to restructure the space and
place, and eliminate slums and chaotic impression are the structuring of zoning
and uniformity of appearance. It can be done with the same trading tools among
the vendors, such as tents and umbrellas are uniform, so the atmosphere of a
compactness can be achieved. However, in principle, it is required the
collaborative effort between the city government and organizations of street
vendors to achieve one goal which is to develop a new tourist destination.
The problems of public open space at the city of Bandung actually happen due to
a lack of coordination and empowerment, so these problems need good
cooperation from relevant stakeholders from local government, vendors, and
society to the realization of a comfortable public space to become a commodity of
tourism.
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Designing collaborative on the city public space has a variety of benefits for the
informal sector, the city government, community and the value of public space
itself as part of the city. For the informal sector, this collaboration provides
employment and accomodate their economy improving. For society, the
collaborative design of public space will provide a comfortable space for them to
gather, socialize, and activities and also provides options for tourism destination
will also provide benefits for the city government. Activities that occur from
collaborative planning will liven up the atmosphere of public open space in the
city and increase the value of open space functions as a means of activity and
creativity in society.
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