MENTORING THE TROUBLED WOMEN WORKERS AT THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN SINGAPORE: Integration of Sufism and Psychology

• Published in: Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism
• Main Authors: Amin Syukur, Nidhomun Ni'am, Sri Rejeki
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Faculty of Ushuluddin and Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang 2016-12-01
• Subjects: women worker; migrant worker; mentoring
• Online Access: https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/teosofia/article/view/1721

There are five components ofdemographics, namely; birth, death, migration, social mobility, and marriage. This study focuses onthe migration of people, commonly called circular migration. Population growth and economic issues, namely the narrowness of employment in Indonesia and the salary promised to be the cause. In Indonesia, this migration is called Indonesian Workers (TKI), both menand women.The majority of Indonesian people's livelihood is asrice farmers, whose results are not sufficient.Naturally, the majority of the Indonesian people become motivated to work abroad. This study focuses on one of the countries in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore with consideration of the number of Indonesian migrant workers who work in Singapore.