| Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT
Minangkabau's street vendors in Indonesian town are unique phenomenal ethnic groups. They migrate voluntarily, called merantau, that is one of Minangkabau cultural products. Their incomes are frequently uncertain and insignificant. To suffice household's basic needs, they attempt to undergo trading and household strategies.
This research was carried out at Malioboro Street, Yogyakarta municipality. The research methodology was a survey method and interviewing a few key respondents deeply. Samples that were selected in this research were 130 respondents of 216 Minangkabau's street vendors by proportional simple random sampling based on municipality of their origins: hinter and coastal land of West Sumatra.
The street vending strategies that were studied included: (1) vending diversified kind of trading goods, (2) borrowing trading goods, and (3) barter. The street vendor's household strategies included: (1) the aids of social networks, (2) selling/pawning goods, (3) reducing household's expense, and (4) employing the member of household at another work.
The mean of daily Minangkabau's street vendor household income was Rp 21,997.- which consists of Rp 16,608.- (75.5 percent), as street vending income and Rp 5,389.- (24.5 percent) as the members of household income who worked at another field. The household income was made sufficient for their daily basic needs, eventhough in fact it was not sufficient. A half of them were registered to occupy the street vending place (52.3 percent) and the others hired. The houses where they stayed, did not belong to their households (94.6 percent).
Keywords: household strategies, informal sector, Minangkabau
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