Education and Role of Female Workers in Oil Palm Plantations, State Border Areas
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.210430.027How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- female workers, state border, education level
- Abstract
Palm oil (Elaeisguineensis. Jacq) comodity has a strategic role in the Indonesian economy, mainly as an export commodity that contributes to Indonesia’s foreign exchange income which has provided employment for 4.42 million workers in oil palm plantations in Indonesia. There are 566,972 workers who works in West Kalimantan region. Kebun Kembayan is one of the oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Sanggau district with 496 workers. There are 70 female workers which covers 14% of total workers in the oil palm plantation. This study aims to determine the education level and the female workers roles in oil palm plantations, especially in the on-farm production subsystem which is located in the state border area. The research approach is a case study using primary and secondary data. Primary data was obtained from direct observations on the plantation field, interviews with related parties; and secondary data was mostly obtained from Kembayan oil palm plantation management reports. Data analysis was carried out in quantitatively and qualitatively process. The research data shows that the highest education background of female workers (38%) is Elementary School (SD) background, SMP (21%) background and SMA (36%) background. The majority of female workers in the Kembayan oil palm plantation (70%) work as field executors, which is to maintain the growing of oil palm plants which involves fertilizing and controlling plant pests.
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TY - CONF AU - Lili Dahliani AU - Tafatihul Qur’ani PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/03 TI - Education and Role of Female Workers in Oil Palm Plantations, State Border Areas BT - Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education (ICNSSE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 176 EP - 180 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210430.027 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210430.027 ID - Dahliani2021 ER -