This research aims to reveal and describe the strategies undertaken by the driver maintain the contiuity of life survival in the urban cullture in the City Makassar, shape or form the drivers of resistance against cultural domination in Makassar, and the role of relevant institutions in the existance of the public mini-bus drivers in Makassar. This research was conducted in Makassar, the data collection method used in Library Studies, Observations, and indepth interviews. The nature and approach of this research is descriptive qualitative.Results and discussion of this study indicate that the strategies undertaken by the driver to maintain the continuity of life is the first form of strategy in the social field are realized in patterns of social relationships that is the relationship with the owner of the vehicle, relationships with colleagues, relationships with fellow driver, relationship with passangers, and the relationship with the government. The two pronged strategy in the economic field are realized in the way of managing personal expenses income, household expenditure, spending for education and health, daily installments, the levy and social gathering. And also describes about how to cope if the income is less that by borrowing the car owner, families, and fellow driver. Further by describing the forms of the resistance public mini-bus drivers of government namely the cultural domination, by doing violations as a form of resistance, such as resistance to the tariff policy, breach of routes and route of formation of the new terminal itself onother driver agreement, and lack of beacon obedience traffic. Also described the role of institution or agencies public mini-bus related to the existence of non-formal institutions such as Organda and non-formal institutions such as your brother directed. While formal institutions such as the Department of Communications, Department of Public Works and Department of Spatial Planning, is also described according to their respective roles.