The Behavior of Using Simcard in Indonesia Border Area

Ray Sastri, Arbi Setiyawan, Setia Pramana and Heny Wulandari

Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2019, vol. 5, issue 1, 165-174

Abstract: Digital life&exists in the border area. The cellphone is a part of daily life. Signals from many telecommunication service providers, both Indonesia and foreign, are captured. The&problem&is when foreign signals captured, then the roaming rate charged. Some&people&avoid&it by&switching&their&simcard&to a local&simcard. Some&people&in border area&using&local&simcard&(from Indonesian service providers)&some&use&foreign&simcard, and other&use&mixed of them&(local&and foreign).&Knowing about border crosser behavior in&using&simcard&is important not only for the telecommunication&service&provider but also for the&government.&The study aims to&estimate&the&number&of&border&crosser&based&on their&behavior&in&using&simcards&when entering Indonesia. This study uses data from Survey of Foreign Tourist Based on Mobile Positioning Data conducted by Statistics Indonesia in 2017. Based on that survey, there were 28.305 of border crosser having cellphones. The method of analysis is& multinomial logistic regression. The responsese variable is the behavior of using simcard with 3 categories; foreign, local, and mixed.& The model fit the data well. The result show that 53,8 percent of border crosser are foreigners most of them entering Indonesia through Kalimantan. The use of simcard in the boundaries area is significantly influenced by sex, age, purpose to visit Indonesia, and region. There are 7,3 percent of foreigner use mixed cards and only 1,4 percent use local cards. For border crossers from Indonesia, there is 99,7 percent use local cards while the other 0,3 percent use mixed cards and no one uses foreign cards.&

Keywords: Border Area; Logistic Regression; Simcard; Cellphone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26710/jbsee.v5i1.727

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