Until the end of August, as many as 1,704 guided street vendors in East Jakarta have finally made DKI Bank accounts on Wednesday (9/24). It aims to anticipate illegal levies practice and local retribution misuse that managed by the field coordinator system.

With auto-debet card, street vendors can pay retribution via DKI Bank and no longer through field coordinator that collects it using ticket

According to Albertus Mikhael, Head of East Jakarta Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and Trade (KUMKMP) Sub-Department, his sub-department will keep holding socialization to 390 other peddlers spread in 36 temporary shelters thus they can open DKI Bank account soon.

"With auto-debet card, street vendors can pay retribution via DKI Bank and no longer through field coordinator that collects it using ticket," he explained, Wednesday (9/24).

He disclosed that retribution can be paid via auto-debet card in six DKI bank offices in East Jakarta. Temporarily, its payment would be imposed in accordance with the bylaw with an average of Rp 2,000-Rp 4,000.

He also admitted there are still found constraints in the field, where many vendors do not understand how to pay retribution via auto-debit card. "That's why we should hold socialization intensely," he uttered.

Based on the data, as many as 1,704 guided street vendors already have DKI Bank account and auto-debet card.