SOCIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF MIGRANT WORKERS’ FAMILY TO THEIR CHILD WELFARE IN DADAP VILLAGE, INDRAMAYU REGENCY

• Main Author: Daniel Aulia, Ahmad
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67714
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

This study focuses on identifying the ownership of social capital of migrant workers' families and analyzing its to child welfare. Considering the high number of women migrant workers from Indramayu Regency, the absence of a mother figure in caring for their children might affect to the changes of family structure with some roles shifted within a family. Parenting role given to a father as a single parent or an extended family member raised a number of problems so that the role and support of the social environment is needed. This study uses a qualitative case study method with the study of social capital contains three elements: norms, trust, and social networks. The research was conducted in Dadap Village, Juntinyuat District, Indramayu Regency. The unit of analysis in this study is the family with the research subjects are family members who is taking care of migrant workers’ children selected using purposive sampling method. The study was conducted in two stages, collecting primary data through interviews, observations, documentations and using secondary data in the form of literature review and statistical data from various institutions. Then the results of data collection were analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis method. The results shows that norms are the most prominent element in this case. Social norms in their community have social implications by forming the trust between individuals. People put their trust highy in horizontal level of society, such as associations, neighbors, and professional groups, as well as the social network of individual who works with a wider flow of information. However, there has not been a positive form of trust and social networks between the community and local government hence the social capital in the Dadap Village community agglutinates at horizontal level. The migrant workers families’ social capital has some positive contributions toward their child welfare, including in health and psycho-social dimensions. However, there has not been a positive reflection of social capital on children's formal education.