The Politics of Law of Structuring Modern Stores as An Effort to Protect Traditional Markets and Empowering Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise in Malang City and Batu City, Indonesia

Abstract

There are three law issues in this research: how the Politics of Law of Structuring Moden Stores in Malang and Batu City, what efforts made by the Malang City government and Batu City government to protect Traditional Markets and empowering Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (SME), and what obstacles faced in structuring Modern Stores and empowering Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise in Malang City and Batu City. This research is an empirical juridical legal research, and the data collection combines two techniques: literature review and field research by surveying some Modern Stores and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malang City and Batu City, using three data collection procedures, which are observation, documentation, and in-depth interview.The research result found that the politics of law in the national context in relation with Structuring Modern Stores only based on Presidential Regulation No. 112 Year 2007 on the Structuring and Developing Traditional Markets, Shopping Centers, and Modern Stores. Therefore, the Regional Regulation No. 8 Year 2010 on the Industrial and Trade Business Execution which also regulates the licensing procedure for the establishment of Modern Stores was issued in Malang City. Even Batu City clearly stated about the Protection of Traditional Markets, Structuring and Supervising Shopping Centers and Modern Stores in the Regional Regulation No. 8 Year 2012. Both Regional Regulations also regulate modern store operational hours, the distance between modern stores, and the partnership with SMEs. The reality of the research result shows that there are many irregularities in the implementation of the rules in the Regional Regulations, especially in terms of modern store operational hours, the distance between modern stores, and the partnership with SMEs.

Keywords: Politics of Law, Structuring, Modern Stores