Indonesian Migrant Workers: Online Communication on Financial Management

DOI

10.2991/agc-18.2019.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

online communication, Indonesian migrant workers, financial management

Abstract

Communication is a vital factor in human relationships for Indonesian Migrant Workers aka IMW. The breadwinners primarily communicate with family members, parents and siblings to discuss their domestic issues. Preliminary studies revealed that the use of productive remittance sometimes discussed without any knowledge on it. This research aimed to find out IMW online communication use in financial management. It used the qualitative approach with descriptive method. Research informants were IMW in Hong Kong and their families using the snowball technique. Qualitative data derived from in depth-interview and focus group discussion data analysis. Research results that Hong Kong based-migrant workers used online communication to send their financial ¬problems, such as basic household needs, savings, debt, etc, mostly through WhatsApp application. Type of online communication was written messages, photos, voice calls, and video calls. Whatsapp became very popular because its considered cheaper and offered varied features. However, the initiative to build family communication uses online media came from IMW during their free time.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nani Nurani Muksin
AU  - Moh. Amin Tohari
AU  - Amin Shabana
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Indonesian Migrant Workers: Online Communication on Financial Management
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Aceh Global Conference (AGC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 36
EP  - 39
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agc-18.2019.6
DO  - 10.2991/agc-18.2019.6
ID  - Muksin2019/01
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