The Impact of Unemployment and Poverty on Indonesia’s Foreign Labor Migration In North Sumatera
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| Issue | Vol 8 No 1 (2025): Talenta Conference Series: Local Wisdom, Social, and Arts (LWSA) | |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.32734/lwsa.v8i1.2372 | |
| Keywords: | Indonesian labor migration unemployment poverty | |
| Published | 2025-02-28 |
Abstract
As a developing country, Indonesia faces many problems economic development, such as unemployment, poverty, and other problems. etc. The high level of unemployment in Indonesia and the narrowing of employment employment opportunities, making most Indonesians choose to migrate abroad to find work. migrate abroad in order to get a job. This study aims to determine the effect of unemployment and poverty on Indonesian labor migration abroad. The unemployment variable is measured by the number of open unemployment, and the poverty variable is measured by the number of open unemployment. the number of open unemployment, and the poverty variable is measured by the number of poor people. poor population. The type and source of data used in this research is secondary data. which comes from Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) and Badan Perlindungan Pekerja Migran Indonesia (BP2MI). Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI). The secondary data used in this This research is a combination of cross section and time series data from the province of North Sumatra from 2015-2021 or more commonly called the North Sumatra from 2015-2021 or more commonly referred to as panel data. This research aims to find out whether the independent variables which are Unemployment and poverty have an interrelated relationship with the dependent variable. interrelated with each other with the dependent variable, namely the Migration of Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI) abroad. Indonesian Labor Migration (TKI) abroad. The results showed that simultaneously the independent variables (Unemployment and Poverty) show that there is a significant influence on the migration of Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI). on the migration of Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI). Partially, it is known that Unemployment variable has a negative and significant effect on migrant worker migration. Meanwhile, the Poverty variable has a positive and significant effect on migrant worker migration.
