City changes strategy to
rid Monas of illegal vendors
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Tue, April 29 2014, 10:55 AM
The city administration, which has faced difficulties in evicting illegal street vendors from the National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta, plans to enforce a 2007 bylaw that will force people buying from the vendors to pay fines of up to Rp 20 million (US$1,726).
“Since early April, we’ve been promoting Article 25, Clause 3 of Bylaw No. 8/2007 on public order, which prohibits people from buying goods from illegal street vendors, by putting large banners on Monas park’s entrance gates,” Firdaus Rasyid, head of Monas park management at the City Park and Cemetery Agency, told The Jakarta Post.
He said the banners were aimed at raising public awareness about the prohibition of buying items from illegal street vendors, and that his unit would evaluate each case before enforcing the bylaw’s article.
The article sets the fines for violators at between Rp 100,000 and Rp 20 million.
Firdaus said that in preparation, his unit had established a special task force that would collect fines from customers found buying goods from illegal vendors.
He acknowledged there were a number of difficulties, as various parties had an interest in the operation of the illegal vendors who set stalls up across the large square park, especially near the entrance.
Firdaus said that on weekdays, around 500 street vendors operated illegally in the park, a figure that sometimes doubled to around 1,000 on holidays.
“It is really hard [to free the park from illegal vendors] because they always find ways to get their goods into the park, even though the entrance is guarded by security personnel,” Firdaus told the Post.
He said some of the vendors had removed one of the banners from the entrance gate.
“Also, some of my security personnel suffered injuries because when were beaten by vendors who forced their way into the park.”
He added, therefore, that it would be less risky for the management to fine purchasers instead.
He said the article’s enforcement would discourage visitors from buying goods from street vendors, making it difficult for the latter to earn money and so force them to vacate Monas park.
Visitors, he said, could buy food and souvenirs from vendors operating at the Indonesian Restaurants and Parks Association (IRTI) field at the east of the monument.
A total 329 vendors operate at the IRTI field under the supervision of the Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperatives Agency (KUMKMP).
Head of the KUMKMP’s Central Jakarta branch, Sri Indrastuti, said that her office planned to renovate the stalls on the IRTI field and divide food and souvenir vendors into two different zones.
To allow for the renovation, the cooperatives agency had temporarily relocated the vendors to an area near the deer enclosure in the eastern part of Monas park, she said.
comment :
in my opinion, about the regulations prohibit the purchase of goods from illegal street vendors who are in very poor Monas , especially with the fines that have been set at 100 thousand to 20 million. Regulations that make the visitors feel disturbed Monas and can not receive the full extent of the regulation. Because buyers are not likely to buy if there are no sellers. Although these illegal sellers sometimes interfere with the visitors as well as the beauty of the Monas monument, but with the sellers of illegal visitors can get a souvenir or the other will be easy and close.
The vendors know that what he did was breaking the rules that have been set, because vendors may not sell at the Monas park when a place has been allocated as desired by street vendors. High public interest to come to the Monas monument made traders desperate to sell at the Monas park. The street traders think that they can get higher returns than selling at a place that has been provided the manager.
many visitors come to Monas make the illegal street vendors is not likely to go away. Each of the visitors came to Monas first goal is to see the beautiful monument Monas monument closer. Moreover, visitors come from outside the city will be looking for a souvenir that will be brought to the village later. All that makes the rules that have been set is to be useless because the seller and buyer will each benefit
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