Badut Jalanan Studi Kasus Proses Kemunculan di Simpang Kampus USU Medan

Abstract

This research is to find out how the appearance of street clowns crosses the USU Medan campus and what makes the effect of changing the practice of busking on street clowns' lives both in terms of economic factors and from the lack of skills in work in other fields. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. Describe people and their behavior in visible written or spoken form. Qualitative research is a research strategy that emphasizes meaning, understanding, concepts, characteristics, symptoms, symbols, and hydration. The sample was selected using a purposive sampling method of one child, six teenagers, five adults who were busking as street clowns at the USU Campus Intersection, and one owner of a rented clown costume. Data collection was carried out using two kinds of data collection techniques according to the type classification and the source, namely primary data and secondary data. The results of this study indicate that the emergence of street clown singers at the USU campus intersection is based on factors such as the family economy consisting of dropping out of school and parents' income, unemployment factors consisting of low education, and lack of skills. Based on the data we collected in the field, it is clear that the family economy is the most common factor and the family economic factor is also one of the results of many street clown buskers dropping out of school. This is exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world which has forced buskers to change their practice of busking to become street clown buskers.