THE ROLE OF THE PAMONG PRAJA POLICE UNIT IN IMPLEMENTING ORDER IN THE KARAWANG PUBLIC SPACE

Jurnal Dusturiyah. Vol 14, No.2 (Juli-Desember) 2024 E-ISSN.2580-5363. P-ISSN.2088-5363 DOI Prefix 10.22373 The Role of the Pamong Praja… Pebriayani, Sartika Dewi, Muhamad Abas THE ROLE OF THE PAMONG PRAJA POLICE UNIT IN IMPLEMENTING ORDER IN THE KARAWANG PUBLIC SPACE Pebriyani, Sartika Dewi, Muhamad Abas Buana Perjuangan University Karawang, Karawang, Indonesia , , ABSTRACT Local governments are required to build public facilities and spaces for the benefit of the community. The success of a government is measured by its ability to construct safe and comfortable facilities. Public facilities must be maintained to ensure community comfort. The Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) of Karawang Regency deploys its members in public spaces to maintain order. This qualitative research uses an empirical juridical approach to understand the roles and challenges of Satpol PP. The findings aim to improve the effectiveness of Satpol PP in maintaining public order in open spaces. Keywords: Civil Service Police Unit, Public Facilities, Public Order. A. INTRODUCTION Regional governments have various government affairs, each of which is delegated to regional apparatus organizations or OPD. As representatives of the central government who have direct contact with the community, local governments play an important role in developing public facilities and public spaces for the benefit of the community. The success of local governments is often measured by their ability to build public facilities that are safe and comfortable for the community. Public facilities need attention from various parties to maintain and care for them, so that people feel at home and comfortable using them. Therefore, the Karawang Regency Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) places its members in several public open spaces to maintain peace and public order.1 The Civil Service Police Unit is included in basic mandatory affairs services. In Law no. 23 of 2014 Article 255 Paragraph (1) states that Satpol PP was formed to enforce local regulations and local regulations, maintain public order and public peace, and provide community protection. Apart from that, Article 255 Paragraph (2) letter b explains that 1 Anandita, A. 2013. "Implementation of Infrastructure Development" Journal of Public Administration Vol. 1 No. 5: p. 853-861 249 Jurnal Dusturiyah. Vol 14, No.2 (Juli-Desember) 2024 E-ISSN.2580-5363. P-ISSN.2088-5363 DOI Prefix 10.22373 The Role of the Pamong Praja… Pebriayani, Sartika Dewi, Muhamad Abas Satpol PP has the authority to take action against members of the public, apparatus or legal entities who disturb public order and public peace.2 According to Soerjono Soekanto, role is a dynamic aspect of position (status). If someone carries out their rights and obligations in accordance with their position, then they are carrying out a role. In an organization, each person has various characteristics in carrying out the duties, obligations or responsibilities that have been given by their respective organizations or institutions.3 Satpol PP is part of the regional apparatus tasked with enforcing Regional Regulations and Regent Regulations, maintaining public order and peace, and providing community protection. Satpol PP members are given duties, responsibilities and authority in accordance with statutory regulations in enforcing regional regulations and regent regulations, maintaining public order and peace, and protecting the community.4 Order and tranquility are conditions that enable the central government, regional government and the community to carry out activities safely, peacefully, orderly and regularly in accordance with the authority to enforce regional regulations and regent regulations. Public places are facilities used for community activities created by local governments, private companies or individuals. Green open space is an elongated/pathway and/or clustered place whose use is more open, a place for plants to grow, a place to play, rest, exercise, etc.5 Public facilities are facilities used by the community. Therefore, the role of various parties from both the government and society is needed to work together to keep it safe and comfortable. The community also needs to realize that public facilities are shared property so that they also act as supervisors against individuals who damage public facilities. Public facilities should be maintained and cared for by all levels of society. However, in reality, 2 Indonesia. (2014). Law no. 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government. Soekanto, S. (2017). Sociology: An Introduction. Jakarta: Rajawali Press. 4 Ministry of Internal Affairs. (2019). Guidelines for Public Order Management and Community Protection. Jakarta: Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. 5 Indonesia. (2020). Regional Regulation Number 10 of 2020 concerning Implementation of Public Order, Community Peace and Community Protection in Karawang Regency. 3 250 Jurnal Dusturiyah. Vol 14, No.2 (Juli-Desember) 2024 E-ISSN.2580-5363. P-ISSN.2088-5363 DOI Prefix 10.22373 The Role of the Pamong Praja… Pebriayani, Sartika Dewi, Muhamad Abas several public facilities in urban areas are not maintained properly. Some individuals actually destroyed, damaged and scribbled on public facilities in urban areas.6 Acts of destruction of public facilities are part of vandalism behavior. The word "vandal" according to the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI) is someone who has a tendency to damage or destroy. The acts of vandalism and destruction referred to are acts of disfigurement, graffiti on public facilities using spray paint, and all forms of violence aimed at damaging and destroying public facilities and their equipment. 7Based on Regional Regulation Number 10 of 2020 concerning the Implementation of Public Order, Public Peace and Community Protection in Karawang Regency, Article 20 explains that everyone is obliged to maintain and maintain the existence, tidiness and cleanliness of public facilities.8 In Karawang Regency, there were several cases of damage to public facilities in open spaces. According to data from Satpol PP, damage occurred in Karawang City in 2023, namely pedestrians along Jalan Ahmad Yani, Lapang Karangpawitan, Alun-Alun Karawang, and others. The problem raised in this research is the role of Satpol PP in maintaining public order in public spaces in Karawang City and the obstacles faced by Satpol PP in carrying out public order in public open spaces in Karawang City. 9 B. RESEARCH METHODS This research uses a qualitative approach with empirical juridical research methods to understand the role and constraints of the Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) in maintaining public order in public open spaces in Karawang Regency. This method was chosen because it can provide an in-depth understanding of how regional regulations (perda) are implemented in real life and explore the views and direct experiences of respondents related to the research top (...truncated)