EKSTERNALISASI REMAJA PUTUS SEKOLAH REMAJA PUTUS SEKOLAH

Studi Fenomenologi pada Remaja Putus Sekolah Desa Guntur Macan Kecamatan Gunung Sari Kabupaten Lombok Barat

Abstract

The high dropout rate in West Nusa Tenggara is a worrying fact behind the incessant
education programs such as Law No. 20 of 2013 which requires 20 percent of the state
budget for education. In 2017, as many as 80 school-aged children in Guntur Macan
village, Gunung Sari sub-district, West Lombok Regency were not in school. Besides the
external factors (family economy) which are considered as the dominant factors causing
dropout students, there is a personal initiative factor that encourages adolescents to take
action to drop out of school. This research aims to understand: (1) the internal motives of
individuals who encourage teenagers to drop out of school, (2) subjective knowledge about
dropouts in teenagers dropping out of school, and (3) the form of externalizing the meaning
in daily life - specifically in education and economics. This study used a qualitative research
method with a phenomenological approach. Then, the subjects of the study are teenagers
who dropped out of school in Guntur Macan Village. The focus and unit of analysis in this
study are the motives, subjective meanings, and externalization of individual actors
(informants). This study finds out various motives and subjective meanings of student
dropout school. After dropping out of school, externalization in the field of education, the
majority took the form of "other externalization", and the minority attended courses at the
Vocational Training Center. While in the economic field, the majority of teenagers dropping
out of school are construction workers (peladen), and the minority are mechanics. Based on
the identification of motives, subjective meaning, and externalization of teenagers who
dropped out of school in Guntur Macan Village, three categories of dropping out of school
actions were obtained; conventional, conditional, and constructional.