Care Values and Their Conflicts : Indonesian Caregivers in Japanese Nursing Home

NAZALIA, Kurnia Dewi

ナザリア, クルニア デウイ

[ABSTRACT] Investigating the care concept of Indonesian nurses who works as caregiver in Japan under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), is very crucial as this is likely to affect their decision to go home to Indonesia. Since EPA begun in 2008, hundreds of Indonesian nurses have come to Japan. This program allows Indonesian nurses to stay without limit in Japan if they could manage to pass the Japan’s National Board Examination. Many Indonesian nurses managed to pass the exam, yet some Indonesian nurses who passed the exam decided to go back to Indonesia. Why does this happen? To answer this question, I did field work at the Japanese Nursing Home. One of my finding is that I discovered two highly values, hati (heart), ikhlas (sincerity for God), which I call here as the Indonesian nurses concept of care. However, because of the nursing home bureaucracy, the large number of the elderly and the lack of caregivers make it difficult for them to carry out this concept, arousing conflict that lead to a decision go to home to Indonesia.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/105708/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/105708/NazaliaKurniaDewi.pdf

千葉大学大学院人文公共学府

Chiba University. Graduate School of Humanities and Studies on Public Affairs

紀要論文

2433-2291

AA1279908X

千葉大学人文公共学研究論集 = Journal of Studies on Humanities and Public Affairs of Chiba University

37

19

27

2018-09-28

10.20776/S24332291-37-P19

publisher

千葉大学人文公共学研究論集 (ONLINE ISSN 2436-4231)