Data - Hasil Observasi Partisipan BRICOLAGE

This file contains qualitative research data generated through long-term participant observation and in-depth interviews with rural micro-entrepreneurs operating within village-based economic ecosystems in East Java, Indonesia. The data document everyday practices of gotong royong (mutual cooperation) as they function beyond cultural symbolism and operate as a living, informal economic system that supports entrepreneurial survival and resilience.

The observational data were collected over a nine-month period in two contrasting rural settings—an agrarian village and a hybrid village with diversified economic activities. Through formal and informal settings such as coffee stalls, group meetings, production sites, and ritual events, the researcher recorded how information exchange, resource sharing, and collective problem-solving occur without rigid organizational structures. These observations reveal how gotong royong enables real-time resource mapping, distributed production arrangements, and rapid collective responses to operational disruptions.

In addition, the dataset includes verbatim interview transcripts from fifteen micro-entrepreneurs across sectors such as food processing, handicrafts, livestock, retail, services, and small-scale manufacturing. The interviews capture personal narratives of business formation, access to capital, labor mobilization, risk sharing, and conflict resolution. Rather than relying on formal contracts or financial instruments, participants describe systems of trust, reputation, reciprocity, and social sanctions as core mechanisms governing economic exchange.

Across cases, capital emerges as a hybrid configuration combining financial savings, shared assets, labor contributions, and social relationships. Transactions are often indirect, long-term, and non-monetary, reflecting a locally embedded economic logic that prioritizes continuity and collective stability over short-term efficiency or individual accumulation.

Overall, this qualitative dataset provides rich empirical material for examining community-based entrepreneurship, informal governance, social capital, and bricolage practices in rural economies. It is intended for thematic analysis, comparative qualitative research, and theory development, offering grounded insights into how traditional social mechanisms adapt to contemporary entrepreneurial challenges.