Potential Adoption of Blockchain Technology in Small Industries and the Tourism Industry in Indonesia: An Empirical Study of the Main Drivers Using Extended UTAUT

Abstract

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 has had a very heavy impact on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This has a positive impact, but also creates a series of problems, where there are trust issues. The aim of this research is to use the UTAUT model to investigate the intention to use blockchain technology by business actors in SMEs in Indonesia. The method used in this research is a continuous descriptive study of the acceptance of blockchain technology among business actors in SMEs using the UTAUT approach model which has been adapted according to the research objectives. The subjects of this research were SMEs in the Banten Province area who were selected using purposive sampling. The results of this research show that as many as thirteen hypotheses proposed in this research, four of which cannot support the hypothesis, discussion and conclusions will be discussed further.