166 LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE PEDESTRIAN RIGHT Jurnal Pembaharuan Hukum Kadek Erma Karlyana, Galih Puji Mulyono Vol V No.2 April – Agustus 2018 LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE PEDESTRIAN RIGHT Kadek Erma Karlyana, Galih Puji Mulyono Faculty of Law, University of Merdeka Malang ermakarlyana11@gmail.com , galihpujimulyono@unmer.ac.id Abstract Walking is one of the main modes of human transportation before the emergence of various other means of transportation that support the movement or movement of humans. In the midst of the rapid development of transportation, safety from pedestrians began to be overlooked by the increasing percentage of traffic accidents involving pedestrians as victims. The neglect of pedestrian protection is a form of violation of human rights that is the basic right of the pedestrian itself as the weakest mode of transportation. The neglect of the protection of pedestrian human rights is caused by several factors such as the availability of inadequate facilities such as the conversion of pedestrian lines by street vendors, the lack of awareness from the public regarding law enforcement on pedestrian protection to the lack of government role in it. The purpose of writing this topic is to raise public awareness about the importance of protection of pedestrian rights by not escape the existence of cooperation from the government so that the rights can be fulfilled as stated in the Act. Keywords: Citizen Right; Legal Protection; Human Rights. A. INTRODUCTION Walking is human effort to do something as subject of pedestrian, mobilitation from point of stand to a different place, it also natural means of transportation before the modern means of transportation emergence which makes easier moving. Along with the development of the era which is accompanied by technological advances that increasingly rapidly causing the passage of human transportation from natural means of transportation that is walking into a modern means of transportation one of them motorcycles and cars. Various advantages and convenience offered, making humans choose to use it and has become a requirement that cannot be eliminated at this time. Pedestrian as subject on foot is someone who goes by walking or at least, half of the implementation is using pedestrian track 1 . The subject means included everyone does unlimited by age, gender, tribe and race. Pedestrian path distance depends on the destination that leads replacement. Relatively, looking at nowadays condition are majorities through half of path and then riding other means of transportation such us public or private transportation. Doddy Dharmawan, explained pedestrian comes from Latin language, it word pedestres–pedestris is people who walking 2 . Spiro Kostof opinion’s, for the first time pedestrian path known in 6000 BC at Khirokitia, Cyprus, in the form of path from limestone which have 1 Word Health Organization, 2013, Keselamatan Pejalan Kaki : Manual Keselamatan Jalan Bagi Pengambil Keputusan Dan Praktisi. 2 Purwantiasning Wafinil Alqi Mauliani, Lily, Ary Wiyawati, ‘KAJIAN JALUR PEDESTRIAN SEBAGAI RUANG’, 2013 <https://doi.org/10.24853/nalars.12.2.>.