This study aims to generate knowledge about the social capital underlying the resilience of Starling Madura coffee traders in Jakarta. The idea that underlies this analysis is Bourdieu's social capital theory, in which social capital formed through networks is able to provide independence in overcoming social and economic problems. In addition to social capital, mobility strategies are utilized as opportunities by Starling Madura coffee traders in an effort to survive sustainably in the context of the informal economic order in Jakarta. This study provides data and analysis that strengthen the idea that Starling Madura coffee traders adopt distinctive social capital and mobility strategies so that they have a competitive advantage and resilience in the informal economy arena in Jakarta. The study findings reveal three main elements that complement each other as the social capital of Starling Madura coffee traders to survive in the dynamics of the itinerant coffee trade in Jakarta, namely the ability to build networks, the innate culture of Madurese ethnicity, and mobility strategies as temporary migrants and mobility in public spaces.
                        
                        
                        
                        
                            
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