Empathic urban functions on Malioboro Street in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia

Abstract

Malioboro Street in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia, is named as one of the most popular tourism destinations for both domestic and foreign tourists. People even said that they were not yet visited Yogyakarta if they did not visit Malioboro Street. It is the main shopping street in Yogyakarta with its pedestrian ways or sidewalks occupied by street vendors. Yet, this is the attraction of Malioboro Street, bazaar on pedestrian ways. While in other places in the world the function of the pedestrian way just for pedestrians only, in Yogyakarta the street vendors could freely occupy pedestrian ways for the commercial matter. It was likely that there were dynamic, empathic urban functions to this street. With this condition, the question of this study is: What kind of empathic urban functions already executed and implemented to this street? The conclusion was that there were some mutual empathic urban functions implemented between the rulers of Yogyakarta City and the people.