class have access to the internet, compared to 57%
of the total urban population. The Indonesia Internet
Service Provider Association survey in 2018 showed
that internet users in Indonesia were 171.17 million
people or 64.8% of the total population of Indonesia.
Consumer behavior has now entered the era of
postmodern behavior. Postmodern, an era outside of
modernity (Singh, 2011), is becoming increasingly
plural in values and lifestyles (Bouagina and Triki,
2014). Many researchers argue that consumption in
this era is the most crucial representation of
postmodernism in contemporary life (Zhongqi et al.,
2016). Consumers' shopping habits have changed
over the past decade in which creativity and
productivity, as well as digital technology, are
integrated with shopping or consumption
experiences (Yasav, 2015; Firat, Kutucuoğlu, Saltik,
Tunçel, 2013).
Postmodernism offers an alternative to joining a
global consumption culture where commodities and
forms of knowledge are driven away from human
control (Singh, 2011). On the one hand, ethnic
diversity distinguishes products consumed, and on
the other hand, many societies will become part of
the globalization of consumption (Czarniewski,
2014). Changes in postmodernism consumer
behavior is an un-ending process (Deepak and
Harneet, 2017) that is adaptive, flexible, fragmented,
liberated, and symbolic (Bouagina and Triki, 2014).
Post-modern has a link with consumer behavior.
One of the characteristics of postmodern consumers
is that they no longer have traditional values of
society and are unpredictable in behavioral patterns
(Berner and Tonder, 2003). Nowadays, people tend
to be consumptive and are encouraged to continue
consuming, using, and discarding to live (Bati,
2008). Changes in paradigms in consumer behavior
increase the need to engage with consumers (Eroğlu,
2014) effectively.
Consumption is a primary social process, and
many functions, as well as motivations for
consumption, are derived from social (Schor, 2002).
Social class is also related to consumer behavior and
becomes the basis for understanding consumer
behavior (Shavitt, Duo, Hyewon, 2016). A set of
characteristics is found to be systematically different
in each social class in the psychological domain,
including norms and habits, abstract-level modes of
thought, the domain of behavior, and the domain of
physical influence (Iqbal and Ismail, 2011). Every
consumer desire in a social class is important for
marketers because the buying behavior in a social
class is the same (Durmaz, 2014) and differs
between classes (Iftikhar, Hussain, Kahn, and Iiyas,
2013).
Each social class places society according to their
values in society (Durmaz and Taşdemir, 2014).
Social class variables are useful for differentiating
consumers based on ethnocentrism values (Strehlau,
Ponchio, and Loebel, 2012). Consumer
ethnocentrism is more dominant in consumers who
like local products (Candan, Aydm, and Yamamoto,
2008). Developed country consumers, in general,
will judge their domestic products to be of higher
quality than other countries' products (Ping, Lobo
and Li, 2012).
Postmodern in this study is connected with Local
Brand Preference, Early Adopter, Open-mindedness
to credit facilities, Online Buying, and Thinking
Mindset based on Social Class. Why? Because
social class also influences where and how
consumers perceive purchases (Durmaz and
Taşdemir, 2014). Lower social class, for example,
likes local products: markets that allow face to face
interaction where they get friendly service and easy
credit, often in their neighborhood (Durmaz and
Taşdemir, 2014), so that they have high
ethnocentrism values (Strehlau, Ponchio, and
Loebel, 2012). When local products are available,
high ethnocentric consumers will show a preference
for local products (Siamagka, 2009).
Consumers migrate from obsolete products to
innovative products (Czarniewski, 2014). The
emergence of the adoption of a new product
behavior is the result of the interaction of several
psychological variables (Eroğlu, 2014). The research
of Ahmed, Khan, and Samad (2016) shows that a
prosperous Indonesian consumer class is an
attractive consumer group. They are ready to adopt
new products, look for quality, and are ready to pay
for it.
The adoption of digital-based e-commerce
encourages the fulfillment of challenges related to
technology, people, and money (Quigley, 2015).
Changes in communication and information
technology in banking services encourage
consumers to think positively about credit and view
credit as an indicator of economic growth. The level
and structure of consumer spending depend on
several factors, such as the level of savings, the
propensity to save, debt, and attitudes towards a
credit (Czarniewski, 2014). In the 2010 OECD
study, 73% of young Danish people did not and
were less concerned about the interest rates on their
loans, and 64% bought goods on credit and thought
that said loans had low-interest rates (OECD, 2010).