Optimization of Handling Problems in Medan City based on

Regional Regulation Number 6 of 2003

Husni Thamrin, Agus Suriadi and Fajar Utama Ritonga

Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia

Keyword: Beggar, Handling Optimization.

Abstract: From the results of various studies of Medan City Regulation Number 6 of 2003 and North Sumatra

Provincial Government Regulation Number 4 of 2008 did not run optimally and could not completely solve

the homeless and beggar problems. Handling through a community empowerment approach (Social

Development that explains the social and economic approach) in order to restore the social functions of the

Homeless and a Beggar Handling Model is required a comprehensive and holistic in the cities / regencies

of North Sumatra Province especially in Medan City. The hope is that the model handlers can be

implemented in other Cities/Regencies in North Sumatra Province. These beggars handling are urgently

needed.

1 INTRODUCTION

Since the Medan City Regulation Number 6 of 2003

enacted has not had a significant impact on the

existence of beggars, and North Sumatra Governor

Regulation Number 4 of 2008 concerning Handling

of Homeless and Beggars in Medan has not been

maximized by the Social Welfare Office of North

Sumatra Province.

Several studies have been carried and give

intresting information. A research by Anggriana and

Dewi (2016) concluded that there were a number of

problems experienced by homeless people and

beggars at the homeless and beggar social

rehabilitation institution, these problems were

related to: economic problems, educational issues,

socio-cultural problems, environmental problems,

legal and citizenship issues, mental attitude that is

less healthy.

Research conducted by Nurita (2016) with the

title Implementation of Medan City Regional

Regulation No. 6 of 2003 concerning the Prohibition

of Bums and Beggars and the Practice of Tuna

Susila in Medan City (Case Study at the

Dinsosnaker Medan City) shows that Medan City

Regulation No. 6 of 2003 is not optimal enough to

deal with the problem of homeless and beggars in

the city of Medan.

Kesuma (2014) with the title Implementation of

Regional Regulation Number 4 of 2008 concerning

Handling of Homeless and Beggars in the City of

Medan in the Social Welfare Office of North

Sumatra Province found that those regulation can be

implemented and also accepted in the community.

Furthermore, supervision of this regional regulation

is carried out in an integrated manner under the

coordination of the regional head

The results of research Evaluation of Policy

Implementation and Order Management of

Homeless and Beggars in Pekanbaru City (Study of

Regional Regulation Number 12 of 2008) by Junaidy

and Sujianto (2014), shows that the local regulation

of Pekanbaru City number 12 of 2008 concerning

social order cannot be implemented optimally. The

effectiveness criteria for evaluating social order

policy in the city of Pekanbaru are not achieved.

Furthermore, the result of Thamrin, Masril, &

Sembiring (2017) research states that the cause of an

individual/group becomes vagrants and beggars is

divided into two factors: internal factor and external

factor. The external factors are: economy,

persuasion by others, indifference of neighborhood

in case there are people being vagrants or beggars,

indifference of family in case there are family

members being vagrants or beggars.

Mechanism of Social Culture in Developing

Assets for the Poor in Local Organizations in Medan

by Thamrin (2018) states that Medan city is the city

Thamrin, H., Suriadi, A. and Ritonga, F.

Optimization of Handling Problems in Medan City based on Regional Regulation Number 6 of 2003.

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with the most intensity of begging arrest operations

between Binjai City and Deli Serdang District. But

in the regulatory aspect, Medan City does not have

regulations that specifically regulate the procedures

for implementing repression of begging activities

Based on the results of research and discussion

of Cutting off Beggars Spread in Medan by Thamrin

and Ritonga (2018), found that there are factors

caused to be beggars: no expertise, no skill, and no

enough venture capital to survive after getting out of

The Social Unit for the Prosperous Pungai Binjai

and NGO KKSP and PKPA Medan City that

provides services to homeless and beggars; a sense

of comfort into a beggar than other jobs.

The City of Medan requires the handling of

homeless people and beggars which is more

integrated with the principle of partnership between

elements of society, both local governments,

communities, security forces, non-governmental

organizations. Tackling the social problems of

homeless people and beggars is carried out

thoroughly and integrated across sectors, both the

city government and the regional government.

The existence of beggars in urban areas is very

disturbing for the people, besides disturbing the

activities of the people on the highway, they also

damage the beauty of the city. A few criminal cases

committed by them, such as pickpocketing even

stealing and others. Therefore, the research model of

handling homeless people and beggars in Medan

needs to be done.

2 METHOD

The method used in this research is descriptive

method with a qualitative approach. The descriptive

analysis method is one of the research methods for

solving problems, which is done by describing and

analyzing. Basrowii (2008) suggested qualitative

data developed by Milles and Huberman that in

principle qualitative data analysis was carried out in

conjunction with the data collection process. Miles

and Huberman's views on qualitative research are:

Data that appears is in the form of words and not a

series of numbers. The data may have been collected

in various ways (observations, interviews, document

essence, tape tapes), and which are usually

"processed" before they are ready to be used

(through recording, typing, editing, or transcribed),

but qualitative analysis keep using words, which are

usually organized into expanded text.

The informants selected is represented Medan

City Social Service and the Medan Municipal Civil

Service Police Unit that handled the homeless and

beggars, social workers/community workers,

academics, and practitioners / community workers of

non-government organizations (NGOs) who work in

the field of handling homeless people and beggars.

Data collection techniques using observation, in-

depth interviews and Focus Group Discussion

(FGD), data analysis used is qualitative data analysis

(Sugiono, 2009).

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Medan City development has never been free from

problems homeless and beggars even though in the

process of handling it has been formulated in Medan

City Regulatio Number 6 of 2003 concerning the

Prohibition of Bums and Begging and Decency

Practices in Medan City. The regulation has been

counted for sixteen years since stipulation by the

Mayor of Medan. Of course, the hope of establishing

these regulations intended to solve homeless and

beggar problems occur in the city of Medan.

In Chapter II article 1 it is clearly written that the

activity of homelessness and begging in groups or

individuals or in any way by influencing / arousing

the mercy of others is prohibited by the Medan City

Government, the Prohibition shows that from 2003

the City Government and the House of

Representatives had paid attention to homeless and

beggar problems. The ban is aimed at individuals

and groups. The current condition shows that the

prohibition is still being violated in private and in

groups.

The results of an interview with a Medan

member of House of Representative, OK

Ubaydillah, provided information that in its history

Medan City Regulation Number 6 of 2003 is the

spirit to give a better appearance of Medan City, it's

just that its implementation until now is not as

expected. The prohibition mandated in these bylaws

has been violated and not carried out in accordance

with what is regulated.

In article 2 paragraph 2 deliberately manipulating

others such as infants, young children and / or

bringing someone/several people for the purpose of

begging also still occurs in Medan City. One case

that has just happened police in Medan City has

exposed the crime of exploitation of minors. As

many as 20 children and 5 adults were secured and

submitted to the Medan Social Service. Head of

Medan Social Services, Endar Sutan Lubis, said that

his office had conducted an assessment and would

continue with family visits including parents

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responsible or not. If not, we will adopt as a state

child to be educated in an institution that handles

abandoned children.

Observation results in the field show the

exploitation of children, disabilities, sick people and

other deficiencies. Regarding Jalan Setia Budi, there

are still often beggars who bring a person with a

disability in a wheelchair, visually impaired, holding

a baby and so on. At the crossroads there are still

many child beggars, leprosy and mothers holding

babies. This fact shows that Medan City still needs

to solve the beggar problem.

In Chapter III Supervision and Guidance in

Article 4 it is very clearly written that the Medan

City Government through the Medan City Social

Service conducts homeless and beggars and

prostitutes in the form of activities in the form and

includes other skills and expertise.vSome of the

solutions made by the Medan City Government are

implementing economic empowerment by forming a

Joint Business Group, by increasing skills that

support their economy such as the Family Hope

Program, BPJS, or Smart Card for their children.

The problem of beggars is a social problem and

is like a disease in society. Some problems are

factors that exist in the internal; individual/family

and from the external. Internal factors causing

beggars:

1. poverty; is a major factor in the emergence of

beggars. Basically beggars are really poor or

pretend to be poor. Some beggars admit that they

become beggars because they are poor and have

low incomes that are not enough to meet the

needs of their families, so they are forced to

become beggars.

2. low education; It makes sense if education

influences a person to become a beggar, having a

low educational background results a person not

having special expertise. Person with low

education cant absorbed by the employment

provided.

3. mental attitude; this condition occurs because

they consider that the profession they are

undertaking is a natural thing, like other jobs that

have the same goal, namely to earn income, so

that they are comfortable with the profession as

beggars. Lack of income sources and limited

mastery of productive facilities and limited skills

cause them to make begging as work

External factors causing beggars:

1. permissive conditions in the city; the people

permissive attitude can be seen from the attitude

that easy to give something. The compassion and

care of the community is a teaching of good

morality. While on the other hand, this view is

put to good use by beggars to continue to draw

mercy from good people

2. urbanization and development gaps; the

emergence of beggars is a negative impact of the

development gap in urban and rural areas. The

rapid development in urban areas is an attraction

for rural communities to move to cities with high

salary motivation without realizing the

limitations of their potential. Based on the

author's interview with one of the beggars who

had followed coaching but still continued his

profession as a beggar said that after attending

coaching he had a few months as a cobbler.

Becoming a cobbler has less satisfactory and

sallary, then he returned to his profession as

beggar.

The role of the Medan City Government in

resolving the problem of beggars in the City of

Medan is to develop beggars in 3 (three) ways,

namely Prevention, Mitigation Efforts, and Social

Rehabilitation.

3.1 Prevention

Prevention efforts are carried out by the government

and or the community to prevent the spread and

complexity of the problems that cause children on

the streets, homeless people, and beggars. Business

as referred to is carried out among others by:data

collection, monitoring, control, supervision, and

socialization.

3.2 Mitigation Efforts

Mitigation efforts are efforts to minimize or to free

public places from street children, homeless people,

and beggars addressed to individuals or groups.

Countermeasures referred to include: raids, carried

out by civil service police officers, and formed by a

joint team. Control is done at any time in a

coordinative by the relevant agencies and an

integrated team consisting of the Social Service,

Pamong Praja Police elements, and can also with the

POLRI elements, in order to provide protection to

street children, homeless, and beggars as well as

groups or individuals on behalf of social institutions

in the name of pay attention to human rights, child

protection, and the purpose of coaching

Temporary shelters are carried out in the context

of fostering with the government social care system

which includes social guidance, mental spiritual

guidance, legal guidance, and social adaptation

games (outbound) by protecting and guaranteeing

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human rights, child protection, and the purpose of

coaching according to applicable laws.

Protection carried out by the Social Service in

cooperation with the unit of Pamong Praja Police

and elements of the National Police and or related

community elements and non-governmental

Organizations (NGOs) to prevent street children,

homeless people, and beggars from going down the

street by creating street-based posts that are carried

out with campaign activities and temporarily due to

the limitations of the Social Service that are not have

a shelter for long distances, to accommodate beggars

given from Pamong Praja Police can only be

accommodated one to two days.

Social assistance is carried out through

individualized guidance of street children, homeless

people, and beggars and their families on a regular

and ongoing basis, the implementation can be

carried out by government social workers and

private social workers and or community social

institutions that have a concern for the recipient of

services.

3.3 Social Rehabilitation

The social rehabilitation effort is a process of re-

finalization in the way of community life and

improvement of the level of social welfare of street

children, homeless people and beggars which is

carried out through the orphanage system and

outside the orphanage. Social rehabilitation efforts

for beggars of productive age, carried out to obtain a

decent and dignified life and life by means of mental

and spiritual guidance to foster awareness and

attitudes so that they no longer carry out begging

activities in public places.

The hope for the Medan City Government is to

have its own rehabilitation center, not to rely on the

property of the existing provincial government to be

realized immediately. Medan City Government has

made and sent the Detail Engineering Design (DED)

to the Department of Housing and Settlements,

because it is they who will later build it. The

construction of this orphanage was ordered by the

Mayor and is expected to be realized soon.

3.3.1 Handling Coordination

As one of the Work Unit (SKPD), the Medan City

Social Service, has a role in the implementation of

regional regulation Number. 6 of 2003, namely

providing social services to homeless people and

beggars as well as practices of prostitutes raided by

municipal police in the Social Service and

Manpower, then in the data and entered into the

archive of social services and labor.

To carry out main functions, the Social and

Manpower Office also involves several related

agencies such as the pamong Praja Police, the North

Sumatra Province Social Service and the Military

Police in implementing policy enforcement such as

raids, policing, and others.

The Medan City Pamong Praja Police also has a

large role in this policy, as a regional regulation

enforcer, cooperation between social services can be

seen when controlling they will work together there

and form a team for operations in the field, raids on

prostitute women or immoral acts in hotels. The

Social Service also cooperates with several non-

governmental organizations (NGOs).

4 CONCLUSION

1. The handling of beggars should be carried out in

synergy with all relevant agencies, and should

not be the responsibility of the Social Service

alone. This synergy becomes very necessary to

be understood as an integral part of the handling

of beggars in the city of Medan

2. The optimization of beggar handlers based on

Perda No. 6/2003 is carried out through the pema

regulation, which includes acts of supervision,

guidance and punishment. In the context of the

implementation of supervision, guidance and

accounting still need to be improved so that it

can run according to the regulation

5 SUGGESTION

1. There needs to be friendship between agencies to

work together in the handling of beggars in the

city of Medan. Beggar remembrance must be

carried out across sectors with reference to the

kepahaan.

2. Need to design standard operational procedures

as a process of supervision, guidance and

punishment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank to the LEMBAGA PENELITIAN

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA who has

provided the research funding in the scheme of

Optimization of Handling Problems in Medan City based on Regional Regulation Number 6 of 2003

PENELITIAN DASAR 2019 so that this research

can be conducted and published.

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