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Evictions of Street Vendors in Big Cities

By:Lia Fitriani

Everyone to get a job and money wherever she or he stays, likewise the street vendors. They want to get prosperity with their job. But as long as they work, they can’t get prosperity, they are prisely get a suffering.

The street vendors come from a village everywhere they live. They come from the village to the city to get a better life. They think will get it in the city, but that’s not like they thinking. In the city is real competition to get a better life. There is more people and they try to find a job, but cannot, just a little percent who can get a job. Maybe they is a lucky man. Just one way for unlucky man, become a street vendors. They could have been a better life but they loose in the competition.

Bandung city, it is one places to many people find a better life. All is available here. It’s a dream city from many people. Food, clothes, etc. Everyone want to get from Bandung. Not only factory outlet, distro, restaurant that we can see there, but also more than a hundred street vendors are there. They increase because more people interest to shopping, shopping, and shopping. They searching the best quality, a better a low price, and they can find in street vendors.

Many places that we can find a street vendors, they will be find in a crowded places and more people will buy them. In Bandung, we can find them in Alun- alun Bandung, Otto Iskandar Dinata street, and Gasibu. Street vendors usually sell they wares in public area like a side walk. They already disturb a public order, and it can become target from the official order. Naughty street vendors always official order always pacified the naughty street vendors and they also not acceptance that.

This is a problem for our government. They must search an answer for this problem. And the solution must be beneficial to all. One solution from our government is a place of the street vendors in a right places. But this solution can’t finished a problem, there still more street vendors sell they wares in public area. Our government must hard work to search an efficient solution.