The Local Impact of Indonesian Workers Migration: A Special Case at Ponorogo Regency Bambang Widiyahseno 1 , Rudianto 2 , Ida Widaningrum 3 Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyyah Ponorogo, Ponorogo, Indonesia 1,2 Institute for Research and Public Services, Universitas Muhammadiyyah Ponorogo, Ponorogo, Indonesia 3 {bbwidiyahseno@umpo.ac.id 1 , alrujikar@gmail.com 2 , iwidaningrum@yahoo.ac.id 3 } Abstract. Many people from the high populated developing country migrate to the developed country in order to find the higher salary jobs. Indonesia is one of the Asian country sending a lot of workers abroad. The number of the migrant workers from Ponorogo regency is the seventh largest in Indonesia and the highest in East Java Province. Therefore, some positive and negative impact are found in Ponorogo related to migrant workers, including the economic impacts and family issues. It has been found from the previous researches that the migrant workers give the positive impact on the economic improvement in Ponorogo regency. However, the negative issues also arise in the family life of the migrant workers, such as the lack attention of their children and the high number of divorce lawsuits. Many people from the high populated developing country migrate to the developed country in order to find the higher salary jobs. Indonesia is one of the Asian country sending a lot of workers abroad. The number of the migrant workers from Ponorogo regency is the seventh largest in Indonesia and the highest in East Java Province. Therefore, some positive and negative impact are found in Ponorogo related to migrant workers, including the economic impacts and family issues. It has been found from the previous researches that the migrant workers give a positive impact on the economic improvement in Ponorogo regency. However, the negative issues also arise in the family life of the migrant workers, such as the lack of attention of their children and the high number of divorce lawsuits. Keywords: Migrant Workers, Ponorogo Regency, Impact, Economic, Family 1. Introduction The international migration of the workers affects the change of the condition of either sending-labor or receiving-labor country. A sending-labor country is usually the high populated country with a less number of job opportunity. The developing country in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, Vietnam, Filipina, and Thailand are the important sending labor- country to Taiwan with the total number of migrant workers per August 2017 as many as 156,342 people, 199,546 people, 146,344 people, and 61,001 people, respectively [1]. Otherwise, the less populated countries with the high economic development rate need many WESTECH 2018, December 08, Medan, Indonesia Copyright © 2019 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2284004