The Advantages Of Dual Role Female Transmigration In Rural Areas (Study in Seuruway District, Aceh Tamiang Regency)

Abstract

This research examines about “The Advantages of Dual Role Female Transmigration in Rural Areas”. The focus of the main stage in this study is to describe the lives of transmigration women who have a role in household/family life. The system owned by the transmigration program requires each transmigrant family to get 2 types of land, namely the main land area of 2 ha and the house and yard area of 0.5 ha. The process of working on two lands resulted in the division of work between men and women in transmigration families. Women, responsible for work in the domestic sector, gets a share of work on residential lands, where this land is usually planted with crops in the form of vegetables and seasonal crops that harvest quickly. The purpose of this research is to find out and analyze the life image related to female transmigration that are in two domains of life, both from domestic and public domains by using ethnographic methods with descriptive qualitative research. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that female transmigration in the Seruwey countryside are very different from other cases, where they get multiple benefits, other than the work in the domestic domain as a wife, and get the opportunity to manage 0.5 ah land for the yard of the house, female transmigrants also get the opportunity to work in oil palm plantations owned by local governments. It can be seen that women have skills and expertise in two domains of life, namely public and domestic, so that the role of transmigrated women in their lives gets multiple benefits to support family life.