Environment Condition of Indonesian Migrant Worker in the Destination Countries and the Amount of Remittance Delivery to Origin Region

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Budijanto, Wan Brahim Wan Achmad

2020 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 412 Issue 1 Conference paper Cited by 1 Quartile

Abstract

The research area about two decades ago is an area that most of the poor people were working in agriculture, the cultivation of dry land, with an area of arable land holdings averaging less than 0.2 ha. Their remittances, in just one decade the area has been turned into an area at the center of economic activity diverse community, neighborhood conditions are arranged, and luxurious impression, the growing flow of transport and communications make the economic wheels spin it appears in the bustle of economic activity community. Hence the importance of exposing working conditions migrant workers in destination countries that affect the delivery of remittances from destination countries to their home area. Therefore, the aim of this research is to discover and reveal the influences of the determinants behind lartar working environment TKI environmental conditions in destination countries against the remittance delivery to their home area. The research approach used is a quantitative approach. It also uses survey methods, data collection by interview. The research location is Tulungagung. The results showed that determinant background working environment in the destination country of TKI provides great influences on the remittance delivery to their home area. The results of the study include 1) Region destination country labor migrants working in the Far East of remittances sent to the place of origin are greater than the migrant workers working in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, 2) The status of migrant workers who of the legality of remittances sent to the region origin is greater than the illegal status, 3) Long working migrant workers in the destination country the larger the number of years, remittances sent to their home area larger than workers who work shorter. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

Affiliations

Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Science, Universitas Negeri, Malang, Indonesia; Department of Geography, School of Social Development, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia