Follow the maid: Domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia

Allouache, Yannis-Adam

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2021.1954797

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“…The profession comes from the informal sector that sells services to help with domestic work in a family (Ajrin, 2016). Generally, women with minimal education and skills take up the profession, therefore, the image of domestic helpers tends to be inferior, and in some cases, they are mistreated by employers (Allouache, 2021;Chan, 2014). In addition, NL also sells and washes lecturers' clothes to earn wages.…”

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Kartini From Alor: Emerging the Discourse of Teacher's Professional Identity in Kick Andy and Kumparan

Rakhmania,

Marta,

Panggabean

et al. 2023

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Education is commonly perceived as the process of having systematic instruction from educators for better living quality, and sometimes, it means higher lifetime earnings. Teachers play an important role in educating the next generation. The Indonesian talk show “Kick Andy” and the news portal “Kumparan” released on Youtube, show a message on education. These programs narrate the story of an early-childhood-education teacher from a remote area in Nusa Tenggara Timur. Both programs illustrate a woman’s struggle to obtain an education opportunity and provide access to education among the children in her village. The data was collected with an interview method. Data were available on television and online media platform. This study employs a framework by Sara Mills’s critical discourse in a combination of the teacher’s professional development theory to rectify how mass media portrays a female teacher who lives in a marginal area. Based on the collected data in Ibusm State, on the one hand, this study finds that the media still depicts women as submissive and oppressed figures who should serve the family and country. On the other hand, it is found that women are empowered to rise from adversity, which is also reinforced by a strong teacher’s professional identity in a teacher’s self.

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Kartini From Alor: Emerging the Discourse of Teacher's Professional Identity in Kick Andy and Kumparan

Rakhmania,

Marta,

Panggabean

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Reaching for the dream: A narrative study of skilled women domestic workers

Astagini¹,

Sarwono²

2022

Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies

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Women domestic workers are often associated with females whose only task is completing domestic work. However, this construction has changed along with the development of the labour industry. Currently, they are associated with skilled domestic workers. The relationship between women domestic workers and their employer that was previously based on kinship is supposed to have shifted to a formal relationship, with work and wage agreements. This construction is also strengthened by the presence of social media, as a means for conveying their narrative as skilled workers and not just servants for their employers. This study examines the process of symbolic interactionism in women domestic workers through their narratives as skilled domestic workers. The data was collected qualitatively from four women domestic workers in the Jakarta area as the research participants. As a metropolitan city, Jakarta has the highest number of domestic workers in Indonesia. Based on the data analysis, women domestic workers conceptualised their profession as experienced and versatile individuals in performing various domestic work and are the backbone of their respective families. Therefore, this conceptualisation shows that the participants can break away from the stereotype that domestic workers are lowly and unskilled workers. The interaction between participants and their employer raises non-physical symbols reflecting dedication and loyalty. In addition, the interaction process is a learning tool for subjects to obtain resources that equalise them with other workers in the domestic sector.

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Follow the maid: Domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia

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Kartini From Alor: Emerging the Discourse of Teacher's Professional Identity in Kick Andy and Kumparan

Kartini From Alor: Emerging the Discourse of Teacher's Professional Identity in Kick Andy and Kumparan

Reaching for the dream: A narrative study of skilled women domestic workers

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