The Meaning of Membership in Motorcycle Community in the Campus

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10.2991/aer.k.200220.014How to use a DOI?

Keywords

membership, motorcycle community, campus

Abstract

In 2017, there are 113 million motorcycles in Indonesia or 43% of the total population of 264 million. With this amount, of course there are also many motorcycle communities and/ or motorcycle gangs. Many social and psychological studies have been done and found positive aspects of motorcycle communities and negative aspects of motorcycle gangs. In addition, the previous studies are mostly descriptive in nature and no more interpretive meanings. So, this research aims to explore the meaning of being a member of the motorbike community on campus. This research is a case study involving five participants to answer research questions: What the meaning of the motorcycle community for you? Do you have personal problems? Why? The result consists five themes including intention of gathering, community as a place to avoid problems, community as a place to cope stress, and aspiration of the founder. Psychological perspective and intervention to promote safety riding are discussed.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hendro Prabowo
AU  - M. Ihsan Sulthoni
AU  - M. Purwani Dewi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/25
TI  - The Meaning of Membership in Motorcycle Community in the Campus
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Transportation Studies in Developing Countries (ISTSDC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 67
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.200220.014
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.200220.014
ID  - Prabowo2020
ER  -