[01] Nenet Natasudian Jaya, Faculty of Economic, Mahasaraswati University of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

The phenomenon of migration of Indonesian workers to various destination countries has been going on since the 1970s, and the number is ever increasing in the last two decades. Limited access for the poor Indonesian economy becomes the main thing that drives them to seek their fortune in other countries. Similarly, citizens of the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, who now works abroad, there were 18 824 people. In general, they feel of being migrant workers could make the economic conditions of their families to be better and could set aside funds for working capital, purchase of land, building house, and so on. However, most of the migrant remittances sent to Lombok apparently used to pay the debt they use to finance their departure as workers. This study aims to determine how the entrepreneurial mental attitude of the post-migrants and the pattern of entrepreneurial empowerment. The study obtained that most of them are low-educated workers, i.e 13.33% of primary school graduates, 46.67% junior secondary education / equivalent, and the rest of high school / equivalent as much as 40%. Empowerment post-migrant workers directed at the appropriate educational skills with the ability to explore the potential in the area of origin of the migrant workers, such as agriculture, plantation, farming, grocery and other business enterprises.

Post-Migrant Workers, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, West Lombok

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