MABIS: Manajemen dan Bisnis
Vol 24, No 1 (2025): March 2025

Women's financial literacy, inclusion, digital finance, and cultural value: an ethnography study in West Kalimantan

Ary, William Wendy (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Mar 2025

Abstract

Gender equality is a concerning issue and women have been fighting for it for many years including Indonesian women. Existing literatures had shown that fintech empirically related to financial literacy, financial inclusion, and digital finance adoption but very little attention given to women’s cultural background especially from ASEAN perspective and very little studies examined this topic from gender perspective. Ethnography methodology was used to explore the perspective of Chinese, Dayak, and Malay (CDM) women living in West Kalimantan about their financial literacy, financial inclusion, digital finance adoption, and cultural value. This study found that CDM women have quite good level of financial literacy in average. Then, this study also found some interesting results regarding CDM women’s financial inclusion. Moreover, it was also found that CDM women have had been using e-wallet in daily activities and there were four reasons behind it namely promotion, bill payment, minimising paper money usage, and daily purchasing. New financial technologies help CDM women in daily economic activities. Moreover, CDM women trusted current digital financial services and technologies in general. Finally, only Chinese participants said that their cultural and ethnicity background affect their perspective towards money management.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

mabis

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

Description

Manajemen & Bisnis (MABIS) is an open access journal with ISSN 1412-3789 and e-ISSN 2477-1783. The editorial board invites authors and experts to publish and share their ideas through scientific and empirical research in the field of Management and Business. The major objective of the publication is ...