Adversities and Aspirations
How Women are Shaping their Futures in the Indonesian Digital Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20237659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monika Arnez (0000-0001-6075-8970, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Pages | 5-21 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moussons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1620-3224 • E-ISSN: 2262-8363 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/16gul |
| OpenAlex | W7165892324 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The Indonesian labour landscape has changed rapidly in recent years. Factors have included the Covid-19 pandemic, increasing digitalisation, the controversial 2020 Omnibus Law on Job Creation and platform work. This article provides an overview of changes in the Indonesian labour market since the last decades, with a focus on post-Covid-19 transformations. It introduces the concept of “fluid work arrangements” where the boundaries between the digital and physical workplace and between the office and home are becoming increasingly porous, with higher degrees of individual autonomy on one end of a dynamic spectrum, and higher control of institutional frameworks on the other. Fluidity can be seen spatially: the line between “office” and “private” space often blurs as people increasingly work from home. The fluidity is also temporal, as the employee can organise their work more effectively in terms of time and coordinate it better with their family’s work schedule in fluid work arrangements. This paper points out the opportunities and pitfalls such fluid work arrangements offer, especially for women. I argue that the digital sphere is a pathway to “digital hoped-for futures,” which are to be understood by accumulating various forms of capital in Bourdieu’s sense. Based on this framework, the three articles of this special issue, which examine female platform motorcycle-drivers, influencers in the writer-sphere and niqabi (women wearing the niqab), are introduced
Autonomy · Futures contract · Indonesian · Influencer marketing · Schedule · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis
Impact of Covid-19’s Pandemic on the Economy of Indonesia
The romance of work
Women, work, and the digital economy
Gender Equality and Development
Women’s Roles in the Indonesian Economy during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Labouring under Democracy in Indonesia and Turkey
| Highly cited | No |
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