<![CDATA[As public trust in conventional policing models continues to swirl downward, this study builds on Indonesia's unique street food culture and the establishment of Gastronomy “Polmas” (Police and Community) - a community security framework that activates street food vendors as organic intelligence agents. This study will look at the "Rantang Aman" program in Surakarta, Indonesia as: (1)a formative culinary ecosystem of security; (2) the effectiveness of intelligence encrypted in food; and (3) a community model that is replicable. Using mixed methods (participatory action research with 120 vendors, social network analysis, quasi-experiment, and digital ethnography), results demonstrated a 31% reduction in street crime, emergency response acceleration from 60 to 12 minutes, 22% increased vendor revenue, and surged community trust (38% to 82%). Hybrid analog-digital tools (e.g., "kentongan digital") proved vital for connectivity gaps. We conclude that culinary codes and vendor networks create high-efficiency security infrastructures, outperforming conventional surveillance while boosting local economies. Implications include policy integration into national Polmas guidelines, "gerobak smart" subsidies for scalability, and a transferable Global South blueprint where street food ecosystems convert informal economies into security assets – proving security can be collaboratively "cooked" in community woks.]]>
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