AbstrakMigrasi internasional yang terjadi pada buruh migran Indonesia menjadi pusat perhatian berbagai pihak dalam dekade terakhir, permasalahan mengenai ketenagakerjaan, baik di dalam negeri maupun di luar negeri mulai banyak terangkat ke permukaan dengan pemberitaan secara meluas di media.BMI yang bekerja di luar negeri, baik kategori legal maupun yang ilegal lebih banyak melibatkan perempuan di Propinsi Jawa Timur, salah satunya berasal dari Kabupaten Tulungagung. Di Negara Hongkong jumlah BMI asal Propinsi Jawa Timur paling banyak, yakni mencapai sekitar 170.000 orang, disusul Taiwan sekitar 160.000, dan Malaysia sekitar 130.000 orang.Penelitian dilakukan untuk menganalisis keberanian pada perempuan untukmenjadi buruh migranyang didasari oleh interaksi sosial. Analisis pada interaksi juga dilakukanuntuk mengetahui modal sosial yang tercipta di kalangan buruh migran Indonesia yang berasal dari Kabupaten Tulungagung. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode kualitatif dengan teknik purposive di Kabupaten Tulungagung. Keterlibatan perempuan di Kabupaten Tulungagung menjadi Buruh Migran Indonesia dilakukan atas dasar keberanian dalam merubah nasib hidupnya dan melawan fatalisme sebagimana melekat pada masyarakat desa. Interaksi sosial yang dilakukan oleh buruh migran Indonesia melalui komunikasi virtual dengan perantara media sosial adalah bentuk dari Geometry of social space dalam kajian interaksi Simbolik. Interaksi sosial inilah yang menjadi modal utama dalam penguatan jaringan di dalam masyarakat sehingga buruh migran Indonesia mampu membentuk masyarakatnya sendiri dalam sistem sosial yang lebih luas. THE INTERACTION OF FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS AS A FORCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AbstractInternational migration on Indonesia migrant worker attracts many people on last decades. Workforce labor problems, either in-country or abroad has begun rose into society, announced by mass media. Indonesia worker who get jobs abroad, whether on legal sector or on illegal, was involved women in East Java Province. Furthermore,some of them comes from Tulungagung Regency. On Hongkong, the number of Indonesia migrant worker is all the much, attained on 170.000 peoples, Next on Taiwan approximately 160.000 peoples, Then Malaysia on 130.000 peoples. Research was conducted for analyze women courage to join as migrant worker based on social interaction. Analysis of interaction was used for detecting social capital among Indonesia migrant workers who comes from Tulungagung Regency. Research was done by qualitative methods, with purposive technique in Tulungagung Regency. To sum up, basically, women involvement on Indonesia migrant workers who comes from Tulungagung Regency has found from their willingness for quality of life betterment and fought patriarchy culture valiantly as well as their goal upon other villagers. Women migrant workers has occurred social interaction by virtual communication through the medium of social media. It was a form of Geometry of social space on symbolic interaction aspect. Moreover, this also mentioned if the prior...

There are many industry sector in Malang City, one of them is Cornflakes Industry which located on Kelurahan Pandanwangi, Kecamatan Blimbing, Malang City. This industry, is running for over 25 years and must facing business competition in industrialized era. For their sustainability, this industry is supported by social capital strengthness. In order to preserving home industries which producing cornflake, there are some components in society who directly supports such as: business owner, employee, and laborer. Research was conducted by qualitative research with gender approach. This research aims for analyzing social capital role on cornflake home industry in Malang City, elaborating social phenomena in industrial sector with economy sociological context and identifying how social capital works on cornflake industrial relationship in Malang City. Research was found that social capital among industrial relation are created social bonding among societies which created by kinship and neighborhood system, then, strengthening cooperation between employee, employer, labor, supplier, consumen and Malang City government for supporting each other due to local commodity from home industry sector. Finally, research finding if social capital will determined industrial existences in the future based on product necessity like cornflake as local commodity has declared by Tourism Indonesia Government as premium local food product from Malang City. Keywords Social network, home industry, Malang PENDAHULUANSeiring dengan modernisasi yang mengikuti kehidupan masyarakat di Kota Malang, pertumbuhan industri-industri di bidang usaha kecil dan menengah dalam berbagai bidang juga tak terhindarkan untuk terus berjalan. Keberadaan sebuah industri kecil berhubungan erat dengan sumber daya manusia. Sebuah industri kecil yang didirikan mempunyai tujuan yang hendak dicapai seperti membuka peluang kerja baru dan tingkat partisipasi masyarakat dalam mengakses kehidupan yang layak sehingga dapat memenuhi kesejahteraan hidup, baik bagi laki-laki ataupun perempuan, baik tua ataupun muda tanpa membedakan latar belakang sosial, politik, ekonomi dan budayanya.Di Kota Malang, sebagai kota yang memiliki ciri khas dalam industri kreatif, masyarakat dapat menemukan berbagai produk local dengan mudah, yang pada umumnya merupakan hasil usaha atau industri kecil pada industri informal maupun tradisional. Salah satunya adalah industri makanan tradisional yakni makanan emping jagung.

<p>Women worker and children employee on fishery industry aims to increase workforce participation around seashore edge beside budgeting pressure for labor cost. What is more necessary, the fishery industry is known as fishing manufacture in Pasuruan, tend to save their expenditure budget due to social subsidies to their employee. Thirty-four women who work at fishery industry was aged from 18 to 55 years old and the 8 children who engage with work was aged from 8 to 16 years old. There was wage gap between women worker and children worker. Gender dualism belongs to women worker and the children create social construction among local society in Pasuruan. Social construction happened because of dichotomy aspect. The first is working in the fishery industry was done with pride in breaking patriarchy rules, Secondly, they set to work for long-life family needed.</p>

Transnational migration performed by Indonesian women today is a social transformation in labor participation. This phenomenon is also encountered in the lives of women who decide to become Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. This research aims to analyze and identify the self-actualized survival ability of Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. In addition, this research also investigates the social capital practiced by Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. The descriptive qualitative method was employed as the research method by using an interpretive approach. Data collection in this research utilized purposive sampling on nine Indonesian women migrant workers which was conducted in May 2019 and located in Tsim Tsa Shui, Kowloon district, Hong Kong. By applying the concept of social capital from Fukuyama, research results discovered that the existence of migrant workers network is established in the circle of relatives and families, which becomes the formation basis of social capital. Social capital possessed by Indonesian migrant workers is admitted to be composed of three main elements, firstly, trust in the form of social security to support the continuity of existence of women as migrant workers in Hong Kong, specifically when facing problems. The second element is reciprocal, which is based on the economic shortages experienced and the common feeling and experience of being a migrant worker in Hong Kong. The last element is social interaction, which prioritizes practical and economic interactions by choosing the closest district to where they live and using social media to communicate with each other.

Sebanyak 70% buruh migran Indonesia adalah perempuan yang awalnya bekerja dibidang manufaktur dan sektor domestik sebagai PRT. Dampak dari pandemi Covid 19 yang terjadi dari tahun 2019 membuat banyak buruh migran Indonesia yang dipulangkan serta tidak diperpanjang kontraknya, sehingga mereka membutuhkan lapangan pekerjaan lagi. Pengabdian ini bertujuan memberikan pelatihan keterampilan para mantan buruh migran Indonesia yang berada di Malang Raya yaitu Pelatihan Pembuatan Souvenir Elemen Interior Bergaya Shabby dengan Teknik Sticky Tape Printmaking BerOrnamen Binatang Mitology Nusantara sebagai Modal Ketrampilan Wirausaha. Metode pengabdian yang dilakukan adalah Participatory Rural Appraisal  (PRA)  atau Pemahaman Partisipatif Kondisi Pedesaan  (PRA) dengan tahapan Pelaksanaan program dibagi menjadi tiga tahapan yaitu: (1) Tahap identifikasi produk dan sosialisasi; (2) Tahap praktek dan pendampingan; (3) Tahap monitoring dan evaluasi. Produk yang dihasilkan dalam pengabdian ini adalah sarung bantal, gorden dan taplak meja