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THE package of investment regulations was newest not all that a week was published by the government. With this newest regulations, the government tried to compared the interests of the local and foreign investors.

The free-market era began to be opened by the government with this Regulations. Aside from the international pressure that moving him, government efforts to stimulate the real sector to have to to be given the thumb. Various capital of economics also began to be tried. Last, the government tried developed special economic the zone (SEZ) in Batam, Bintan, and Karimun in the Riau territory of the Island Province.

This co-operation tie Brought together President SBY and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to sit together. Apparently Singaporean help to guarantee the arrival of the network of foreign investment that was difficult tired was managed by the Singaporean Investment Body (ADB) very much was needed by our government.

Yes, just honest, uptil now Indonesia was shackled by the investor’s concern foreign that intended to invest his capital in various potential areas.

Not only in the sector of the difficult or light industry, but also tourism that sold beauty nature. The appearance of this investment regulations more or less brought the fresh wind for us.

The decline of this country form the background by did not proceed him the well-off real sector Brought the fresh fund to the low community. However not meant this UU directly Brought the miracle. Honestly we hoped had the fast change.

But wait a minute! Many matters that sepatut him was analysed why the national value of investment and Local did not go up. Come on saw to problems that apparently in the surface.

In the eyes of businessmen, this country was known with various contradictory matters.

On the one hand, the government often produced the package of the policy that facilitated the investor; from the incentive to the tax, permission facilities, to the ease of the location of efforts.

Only, on the side Other, whether was realised or not, the government of the centre had not tried to become disentangled the root the problem that always emerged in the area.

Many circles that experienced that regulations and the package of the policy of the centre evidently many collided with regional regulations.

In the autonomy period of this current area, not few local governments that maintained regional regulations that produced much money from the arrival of foreign investment.

In the level of the centre, permission was facilitated, but in the level of their re-area was snared.

This not yet including the behaviour of the machinery that liked to carry out the practice of the illegal levy from the process of the management of documents belonging to the investor.

The practice of the high economic cost has become the sign of the public in potential areas. Just the reverse, the area that was not too potential more knew itself in maintaining the growth of investment in their area.

High cost economics that was termed that, apart from was done by the machinery, precisely that was very annoying was marked by becoming evident him organisations were stylish of street crime.

This organisation was not increasingly counted again by his existence after reform.
Easily, less than five people could establish the organisation or the agency with the aim of monitoring the government or something like that.

No matter what was done by them in and out of precisely if compared was inside out with the plank of the available name in front of their offices. They came to bring the name of the community, and afterwards stood on the personal interests and the group.

More or less their behaviour was very annoying the investment current to the area. With the pretext The interests of the public that was reinforced with the number of mass groups that was sheltering in in their organisation, then not rare this organisation program just frightening the businessman and the investor with the protection offer from the disturbance of the other group.

Okay, these actions were named by us: street crime. Street crime in general emerged every day. They were a collection people that going by the X organisation, the Y agency, or the Z group. But, that good became dreams that aspects of this street crime Was not independent. The talking theory always had the social situation that went along form the background of.

Asked to the user of the road. All will reply, the situation was increasingly chaotic. Asked to the resident of the owner of big businesses or small, will be replied, the concern fully was not yet lost from their heart.

The stallholder mushroomed everywhere, but that because of not having the policy of giving space that justice as economically.

The growth of many cities also only leant to the owner of true capital. They did not care whether that to marginalization the resident that already marginalized.

And, his peak, the weak community financially experienced the frustration resulting from the lack of the protection to just looked for few profits on small things that were traded in by them. Come on tried to combine this phenomenon with several factual problems in the Medan City.

The North Sumatran capital was one of the potential areas invested, and in the list of the Body of the Investment Co-ordination (BKPM) was planned as one of the buffer zones in the development special economic the zone (SEZ) that was thought of in the future.

The data in 2004 showed, from 2. 010. 676 of the total population in Medan at least were 19.43 Percent of the inhabitants who were classed by the unemployment were open. The level of poverty reached 7.13 percent.
Trend the unemployment showed the decline until reaching 12.46 percent In 2006, but in the same year also, the level of poverty experienced the increase through to of 0.64 percent.

In 2004, the level of the growth of economics reached 7.29 Percent, whereas in 2006 descended to the figure 6,98 percent the business units as the indicator of the growth of economics evidently was not yet too pleasing.

The North Sumatran central committee of Province statistics recorded in 2006 was gotten 222. 138 efforts units, that 46.07 percent among them, were efforts was not permanent. The growth rate of the business world also did not yet reach 5 percent in extension 2004-2006.

Then, in two years later, the inhabitants’s poor population continued to improve resulting from increasingly declined his economics. The unemployment was not yet touched. The work very much was difficult to be looked for. The community also did not yet enjoy directly the policy of the stylish development of capitalism.

In the level of the surface, appeared to be missing link between the style of the development that is practised by the regional government and the condition for the community generally.

In the perspective of Criminology was known to be social by the sign that was termed fear of crime or the feeling frightened in the crime. The sign that generally descends on this urban community showed the collective feeling in the community that no longer could explain the source of his fear, but brought the change in the behaviour and the way of thinking.

Hindelang, Gotfredson & Garofalo (1978) depicted that was affected by this sign syndrome was them that close to sources of the occurrence of the crime so as to feel susceptible to criminal casualties.

The Criminology experts demonstrated children and the woman, as well as especially the trader, the businessman, and they who were adjacent to sources of economics. Depicted, the sign fear of crime that caused the feeling of panic (morale panic) that will give birth to the pathological community that was marked by the height of the conflict figure, depression, and the frustration.

In the perspective of Criminology, the social sign like this created the instability in the economy of the community.

In the research that was carried out in the USA during the period of the rule the gangster, results of the Hindelang research, Gotfredson & Garofalo showed ”fear of crime” has caused the economic cost for the city community in the form of the death of the business world, the decline in social cohesion resulting from always suspicious when developing the social interaction, and increasingly bad him the affected city territory labelling: frightening.

Why was the sign of this street crime still also seeming the armature? What can one do, we were forced to repeat the answer that currently becomes the cliche, because of police that must be handling personally the task of public security and order, while his problem root was rarely touched by the government.

The sign often was rooted from injustice and poverty. For example, many buildings had assets billions were allowed to violate the provisions, but at the same time hundreds of pavement place were destroyed on behalf of regional regulations (Peraturan Daerah/Perda).

Perhaps we agreed the behaviour of the violence became evident from here. Police also very was difficult. Left street crime that increasingly spread clear was compatible with the task of holding the order and the security. However combatted him also not the case was easy. The behaviour of street crime now change with his faces that were other: soft and was in a political style.

Clearly police were often deceived with the appearance was newest this. Apart from that still had the perpetrators street crimes that was cruel and without being reluctant to prey on casualties who opposed.

Created the safe feeling indeed the task of police, but released the community from the everyday difficulty clear not the context of their authority. Come on again agreed that the root from all over the complexity of these urban areas was the failure of the regional government promoted welfare of his resident.

The Third World expert, Hernando de Soto, suggested the hurrying government empowered the informal sector. According to Soto, the existence of the status of the law released the informal sector from the street crime target, at the same time motivating them to the more modern efforts environment.

The status of the same law individually him deadly room to move of street crime groups that often observed the perpetrators of efforts. Or, that precisely stimulated street crime groups to create efforts that widened the work opportunity.

In many matters, poverty became the cause factor of the growth of street crime that was preceded by the growth of unbalanced city economics. The city had the dual face.

On the one hand, mall, estate, apartment, or food court grew the somersault, but in the other corner of the city did not stop was fenced by the dirty settlement (slums the area)– that was the resident’s poor collection, poor, or that was isolated by the competition for the life that not all that gave justice and the opportunity.

Slums was lived in by migrants who lost economically. This dirty territory that gave birth to the behaving community deviated and had the trend against the law.

Inspected from this perspective, then the big question ought to be put forward to the regional government. They now was in the position to can and wanted pay attention to, handled, as well as solved big problems that became the background of the sign of poverty and street crime?

If not, then the dependence of the community on the package of UU or the policy of investment only built castles in the air. The government also too much based their hope on the police institution — that appeared with the noose headed by city police, ressort and the firm area stifled street crime.

We could just cut his twig. The theory proved the investment passion in part also must be carried out by overcoming his root, that is high cost economics.

This high cost economics actually often was preceeded by the economic difficulty in the level was lowest. This made them have difficulty thinking rational.

This element that precisely made the person easily be recruited to become part of the street crime group. So be not enough only with the package of regulations! (**N)

*) This article was sent to The Jakarta Post on May 21th 2007