ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN THE AREA OF CENTRAL INDONESIAN MIGRANT WORKERS’FAMILY

Abstract

Ads from Malaysia cleaning equipment company, RoboVac in February 2015 with the inscription 'Fire Your Indonesian Maid Now' and has caused public outrage Indonesia. Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi also take action, not only sent a protest note, the Foreign Minister also call the Malaysian embassy officials to Foreign office. Polemics presence of migrant workers abroad has always been a concern of Indonesian society. This study aims to formulate entrepreneurial strategies in the central areas of Indonesian workers’family in Gresik. Top of Form - The approach used in this article is a qualitative study - Phenomenology. Data collection method used was a literature review, surveys, and indept-interviews. Data collected was analyzed using triangulation, starting from the stage transcribe data, process information and display data. In Dukun Subdistrict more than 1000 people who work as migrant workers in the informal sector overseas. Until now not much developed entrepreneurship programs conducted by former workers and family members of migrant workers both in the village ;Tebuwung and Lowayu. There are no bottom-up entrepreneurship program ranging from the village as well as top-down program of the central government, provinces and institutions National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI). Money earned by the majority of migrant workers are still being used to meet the needs of the consumer, has not been productive to start a business. This article presents the issue of family entrepreneurship development strategy in the central areas of migrant workers by involving family workers who succeed in entrepreneurship and then cease to be workers abroad.

 Keywords -Strategy, Entrepreneurship Development, Indonesian Worker’sfamily