JURNAL KOMUNIKASI DAN BISNIS
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): November 2025 - April 2026

Communicative Governance Through the Strategic Role of Cabin Crew in Building Public Trust (Study Ethnography in Hajj Depature 2025)

Helsya Suhesti (Universitas Mercu Buana)
Henni Gusfa (Universitas Mercu Buana)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 May 2026

Abstract

This study examines the governance of professional communication through the strategic role of cabin crew in the 2025. Hajj travel involves intense emotions, logistical complexity, and diverse pilgrim, requiring exceptionally high communication standards. Although cabin crew deliver frontline safety and service, they function as strategic agents that embody organizational and governmental integrity, thereby shaping public trust. Using a qualitative case study desgin, data were collected through participant observation on Hajj flights, in-depth interviews with cabin crew and Garuda Indonesia management. Analysis of training documents and on board communication protocols. The study identifies communication strategies, patterns, and content used to manage expectations, provide reassurance, and respond to critical on board situations. Findings show that communicative governance emerges from intensive empathetic, cabin crew empowerment for on decision-making, and coordination action. Communicative governance is structures, strategic communication and coordinating organizational with public to build corporate trust. Trust is sustained through transparent, proactive, and adaptive to the need os the pilgrims’ include spiritual. The study concludes that in complex and sensitive service contexts. frontline strategic agents are central to corporate communication governance and offers a transferable for trust-building in the services industry.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JKB

Publisher

Subject

Arts Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Komunikasi dan Bisnis, ISSN 2355-5181 (printed), ISSN 2723-2956 (online) published by Department of Communication Sciences, Institut Bisnis dan Informatika Kwik Kian Gie, Indonesia. The first edition published in 2013. In its first edition, this journal published in print. By the provision of ...