Research Article
The Local Impact of Indonesian Workers Migration: A Special Case at Ponorogo Regency
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2284004, author={Bambang Widiyahseno and Rudianto Rudianto and Ida Widaningrum}, title={The Local Impact of Indonesian Workers Migration: A Special Case at Ponorogo Regency}, proceedings={Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2018, Medan, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={WESTECH}, year={2019}, month={6}, keywords={migrant workers ponorogo regency impact economic family}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2284004} }- Bambang Widiyahseno
Rudianto Rudianto
Ida Widaningrum
Year: 2019
The Local Impact of Indonesian Workers Migration: A Special Case at Ponorogo Regency
WESTECH
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2284004
Abstract
Many people from the high populated developing country migrate to the developed country in order to find the higher salary jobs. Indonesia is one of the Asian country sending a lot of workers abroad. The number of the migrant workers from Ponorogo regency is the seventh largest in Indonesia and the highest in East Java Province. Therefore, some positive and negative impact are found in Ponorogo related to migrant workers, including the economic impacts and family issues. It has been found from the previous researches that the migrant workers give the positive impact on the economic improvement in Ponorogo regency. Many people from the high populated developing country migrate to the developed country in order to find the higher salary jobs. Indonesia is one of the Asian country sending a lot of workers abroad. The number of the migrant workers from Ponorogo regency is the seventh largest in Indonesia and the highest in East Java Province. Therefore, some positive and negative impact are found in Ponorogo related to migrant workers, including the economic impacts and family issues. It has been found from the previous researches that the migrant workers give a positive impact on the economic improvement in Ponorogo regency. However, the negative issues also arise in the family life of the migrant workers, such as the lack of attention of their children and the high number of divorce lawsuits.
