Jurnal Studi Komunikasi
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025)

Uses, constraints, and benefits of QRIS for merchants in Pondok Cina Station

Alyssa Tsabita Farhana (Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Jakarta)
Dzahira Brilliant Syakira (Faculty of Economics and Business, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta (UIN Jakarta))
Muh Syukron (University of British Colombia)
Ruth Meilianna (Research Center for Population, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN))
Yanti Astrelina Purba (National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN))



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Mar 2025

Abstract

As technology continuously develops, economic activities begin to shift from the use of traditional payment systems to the use of digital payments. The urgency of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) digitalisation program will gradually encourage small-scale street food vendors to adjust to technological advances. With this transformation, this study aimed to measure the development of QRIS usage among small merchants, whereby only little research has been done on the use of QRIS among small merchants. The researchers conducted a survey and in-depth interviews with small merchants at Pondok Cina Station, Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The results showed that there were more respondents who did not use QRIS with 53.3%, rather than those who used QRIS with 46,7%, although the difference was relatively not large. The biggest reason why merchants still do not use QRIS is that they do not understand how to use it and have encountered difficulty using it. In fact, there are still customers who rarely use it. Nevertheless, meeting high customer demand is one of the most common reasons why merchants use QRIS as a means of payment. Education, gender and age of merchants are aspects that can be researched deeper which are the determining factors for merchants using QRIS. The interview results show that QRIS is able to increase merchants' sales profits. There are several reasons why the respondents do not use QRIS, such as lack of understanding on how to use it, with 19.4%, consumers rarely use QRIS with 22.6%, inconvenience of using it with 22.6%, and making losses with 3.2%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jsk

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies), one of the journals published by Faculty of Communications Science Dr. Soetomo University, was established in January 2017. Jurnal Studi Komunikasi a double blind peer-reviewed journal, explores critical and constructive ...