Paper short abstract:

Overall 60% of the people worldwide have only part-time work. This change from full-time jobs to part-time jobs is most evident in the developed countries, particularly in Japan, Many foreign students choose to do part-time work to help pay their tuition or living expenses.

Paper long abstract:

At present workers with non-standard forms of employment are increasingly increasing types of work. In addition to the flexibility of time, of course, this type of work provides many choices for workers to choose what type of work they want to do. In the world today there are 21 countries that have high numbers of non-standard forms of employment, most of them are European origin countries such as the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Austria. In Asia alone, the number of types of part-time workers is quite high is Japan.

With Japan's demographic condition continuing to decline the number of productive work rates has also declined, with the trend that the type of part-time work has become a phenomenon that is filled not only from Japanese workers but also foreign students who come on study visas in Japan. It is estimated that approximately 75% of foreign students at their own expense undertake part-time work in Japan. For Indonesia alone, in 2018 there are 5000 Indonesian students studying in Japan and some of them are also part-time workers. Thus this study wants to analyze more deeply the conditions of part-time workers of Indonesian students in Japan with the ethnographic method particularly in the area of Shiga, Kyoto and Osaka Japan, of course, further investigation is needed regarding the regulations and conditions of these types of part-time workers. What kind of working conditions are experienced and how they negotiate their working conditions and the vulnerabilities of part-time workers will be part of this study by using discourse theory to see what is built from fellow Indonesian part-time workers through the Indonesian perspective.

Key Words: Part-Time, Workers, Indonesia, Japan, Precarious, Discourse