Soehartadji
Description
This thesis analyzes the problem of seasonal employment
of agricultural workers in two Indonesian provinces, West Java and
Yogyakarta. Seasonal employment of agricultural workers is a common
problem in countries like Indonesia, which depends upon agriculture.
During the slack season there are fewer jobs available in rural
areas, and this situation forces many agricultural workers to look
for other jobs. In the following discussion the term "seasonal
workers" means those persons 10 years...[Show more] of age and over who were working
in agriculture in the last season, but who were no longer working in
agriculture or who were outside the labour force (including those
whose work status was unknown) in the week preceding the enumeration.
Thus the term "seasonal workers" here also includes those normally
working in other occupations who work in agriculture only during the
busy season. In the following discussion, however, the Census subset
does not allow the separate analysis of the latter group due to the
difficulty of identifying them.
This thesis consists of five chapters. The organization
of this thesis is as follows:
Chapter 1 is concerned with the labour force concept, and
with the 1971 Indonesian Census and other data sources. The chapter
briefly describes the scope and objectives of the study.
Chapter 2 begins by broadly describing seasonal employment
in agriculture in Indonesia. The examination of seasonal employment in Java is used to provide a foundation for the further analysis of
seasonal employment in both West Java and Yogyakarta.
It is important to investigate the characteristics of
seasonal workers to determine if similarities with the general
population exist, especially concerning sex and age composition,
marital status, economic activity, relationship to the head of
household, and education. A discussion of this comparison is
presented in Chapter 3.
One purpose of this study is to investigate the movement
of seasonal workers between agriculture and the non-agricultural
sector. The distribution of seasonal workers by industry and by
occupation in both West Java and Yogyakarta is the main emphasis
of the analysis in Chapter 4. A brief discussion concerning the
economic and social conditions is also provided in this chapter,
because in fact these conditions have influenced the distribution
of seasonal workers by industry and by occupation in these two
provinces. In order to get a more concrete picture of the variation
of this distribution a regency-level discussion is provided in the
last section of Chapter 4.
Finally, some findings and conclusions of this analysis
together with recommendations for further research are presented
in Chapter 5.
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