Determination of location criteria of PKL Center as tool for success relocation

Abstract

Street vendor is an informal sector that performs its economic activity by using an area which is not in accordance with the government's spatial planning and considered as an additional to the urban issues, however the street vendor is an essential aspect in Indonesian urban cities. The relocation of street vendors is aiming for location management in accordance to carry out training program about the services activities of the informal sector by the government. At 2016, Surabaya is actively on beautifying the urban area by relocated the street vendors, including all street vendors along Arif Rahman Hakim Street. Those street vendors have been relocated to several Street Vendor Centers along the same street.The effort of minimizing any the changes of those street vendors to return to the side of the road to vend is by measuring the effectiveness of the street vendor's relocation, targeted on these points: 1) identifying the street vendor's characteristic, 2) measuring the effectiveness level of the previous relocation, and 3) formulate a location's criteria which is suitable for the street vendors of Arif Rahman Hakim Street in order to improve the effectiveness of the relocation.Thus, it can be concluded that these street vendors is in good term. And relatively concluded, the relocation of Arif Rahman Hakim Street's street vendors is quite effective.