Jebakan Likuiditas Aset dan Kerentanan Pendidikan Antar-Generasi pada Keluarga Petani Garam

Abstract

This study analyzes the relationship between productive asset liquidation—specifically salt pond land—labor migration, and educational support changes in salt-farming households. A qualitative case study approach was employed, involving families who sold or mortgaged their salt ponds and had members working as Indonesian migrant workers (TKI). Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation, and analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model. Findings reveal that unstable salt prices, economic pressures, and household debt led salt farmers to sell pond land as liquidity to finance labor migration and non-agrarian businesses. Labor migration as TKI became a family survival strategy but did not always produce stable livelihood improvement. The study also found that parental educational support was primarily limited to school financing rather than academic assistance and supervision. These findings indicate that the liquidity trap not only prompted salt pond sales but also reproduced intergenerational educational vulnerability in salt-farming households.