Moms’ War and the Misconception about “Ryosai Kenbo” and “Kyoiku-Mama”: Case of Educated Middle-Class Women in Indonesia

NUNUK, Endah Srimulyani

ヌヌック, エンダー スリムリヤニ

[ABSTRACT]Due to the rapid growth of internet users in Indonesia, mothers, who are socially connected through social media, have been involved in an ongoing debate topic: the ideal mother: stay-at-home moms versus working moms. Participants use religious dogma, a theory of parenting from psychology, philosophy of education and even sociology in the debate. One of the more popular models proposed is the positive image of “ryosai kenbo” and “kyoiku-mama”, two Japanese styles of motherhood and child rearing, which are virally spread by social media. Through in-depth interviews with married women (aged 20s -40s) who live in urban areas and are university graduates, this research was aimed to find out the various perceptions of the ideal concept of motherhood and child rearing standards among educated middle-class women, which were represented in the so-called moms’ war conducted over social media. Based on subsequent analysis, the researcher found that (1) the moms’ war on the social media showed the transition of motherhood style and changes in child rearing standards in Indonesia, (2) the misconception of ryosai kenbo and kyoiku-mama in Indonesia was caused by inadequate information about the history of Japanese family sociology, especially the social welfare system and sexual division-of-labor in the Japanese workplace, and (3) the Indonesian urban family model had changed from the extended to nuclear family, resulting in captivation by the ideology of child-centeredness that frequently happens in the middle-class family.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107904/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107904/ceresIntlSympo-24-P738.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

Presentation

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

24

738

748

2016-11-21

eng

publisher

Proceedings of the symposium on environmental remote sensing