Involvement of Informal Actors in Parking Management at Pasar Anyar Tangerang

Abstract

This research writing analyzes the involvement of informal actors in parking management at Pasar Anyar Tangerang and explains the contestation of power of the involvement of informal actors outside formal institutions. Using a qualitative research method according to Cresswell with one of the phenomenological approaches to provide an understanding of the meaning of the experience of life justice of the involvement of informal actors in the inconsistency of parking management rules at Pasar Anyar Tangerang. The results of the study describe that the involvement of informal actors such as illegal parking attendants, local thugs, and community organizations is not just a violation of the law, but also a response to the weakness of supervision and the absence of the state in the Pasar Anyar Tangerang area. Parking management becomes an arena for power contestation between PT. Tangerang Nusantara Global (PT. TNG) as the official manager with local informal actors. Using Robert Cribb's theory of the exception system with three indicators of state weakness, disconnection between law and moral values, and a fragile social contract. This study recommends the integration of informal actors into the official parking system and strengthening of participatory governance for long-term solutions in sustainable parking management.