The Government’s Response to the Rampant Illegal Levies in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres Market

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10.2991/assehr.k.220302.032How to use a DOI?

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government response and illegal levies

Abstract

This study examines the government’s response to the rampant illegal levies in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres market accompanied by extortion by Haria against the traders. Every day the traders claim to be extorted by Haria Peukan for IDR 50,000 to 100,000 and if they refuse to pay, they are threatened with eviction. The focus of this research is the government’s response to the rampant illegal levies and the factors causing this action in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres market. To answer the above problems, the theories used were the ones related to government, illegal levies and markets. This research used qualitative descriptive research method accompanied by interviews as the main data collection technique. In addition, observations and documentation were also conducted to gather the data. This study aims to show and obtain evidence related to the existence of illegal levies in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres market and the practice of illegal levies carried out by certain elements, resulting in the government not being aware of the problems faced by traders in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres market. Based on the results of the research, it is found that illegal levies have occurred in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres market and this illegal practice carried out by certain elements is still under investigation, especially by Department of Industry, Trade, and Cooperatives. The rise of illegal levies is due to ineffective supervision by the authorities. This is allegedly because the Lhokseumawe City Government through Department of Industry, Trade, and Cooperatives uses the services of Haria Peukan as the third party in quoting market fees, thus making the government not aware of the problems faced by Lhokseumawe City Inpres market traders.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bobby Rahman
AU  - M. Akmal
AU  - Teuku Muzaffarsyah
AU  - Marlina
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/24
TI  - The Government’s Response to the Rampant Illegal Levies in the Lhokseumawe City Inpres Market
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 221
EP  - 226
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220302.032
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220302.032
ID  - Rahman2022
ER  -