Study, 3 Of The 10 Financial Sector Workers In Indonesia Experience Job Stress

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JAKARTA - Workers in the financial sector in Indonesia are experiencing work stress and are vulnerable to mental health disorders. This was revealed through a study of the Causcus of the Community Caring for Mental Health or the Ministry of Education Caucus in 2024.

The study proved that 30 percent of workers in the financial sector in Indonesia experienced work stress. Especially lack of enthusiasm or work energy, and fatigue in work.

"From this study, we found that the type of kink of vigor or loss of work stamina and fatgiue or fatigue and work loss occurred significantly at 30 percent, especially for banking workers and state-owned financial institutions," said the Main Researcher and Initiator of Kaukus, Dr. dr. Ray Wagiu Basrowi, MKK, FRSPH, during a press conference in the Senen area, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.

"This provides new data for the mental health status of workers in Indonesia because there has never been large-scale valid data that specifically describes the mental status of workers in the financial sector," he added.

Research on the Islamic State Caucus involves 5,560 responses from financial sector workers spread throughout Indonesia. Starting from banking, insurance, regulators, Deposit Insurance Corporations, to fintech spread across 36 provinces of Indonesia.

Ray Waigu said that the stress experienced by financial sector workers in Indonesia was caused by three factors. Starting from the lack of work balance, poor work coordination, to excessive work numbers.

"The lack of work balance and personal life or work-life balance that is not obtained, then the potential for coordination lines or instructions within organizations that are not good, as well as frequent work overloads," said Ray Waigu.

With these findings, it is important to conduct a screening related to the mental health of employees in places for mutual welfare. Companies in the financial sector must also provide hope or hope that helps them to be enthusiastic and develop themselves.

"This is important to mitigate by providing intervention in the form of promotion and screening of mental health in the workplace. In addition, financial sector companies are also required to give feelings of 'hope' or hope for workers to develop themselves and their careers," continued the Head of the Research Team for the Keswa Prof. Rofikoh Rokhim.