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Economic Subjectivity and Symmetrical of Economy in Badminton Bubble System, The Pursuit of Leisure
Dina Amalia Susamto

Pursuit the leisure time is the words that motivated the Indonesian Badminton Festival held by World Badminton Federation (BWF) and Indonesian Badminton (PBSI) Unity in Nusa Dua Bali on 16 November to 5 Desember 2021 was the three consecutive tournaments to substitute the two delayed, Indonesia Master and Indonesia Open that should be run on June 2020 for Indonesia Open, and January 2020 for Indonesia Master 2021. Because the tournament was scheduled at the end of the year 2021, BWF choosed to do the World Tour FInal 2021 also in Nusa Dua Bali, Indonesia. The consecutive international tournament held in a country with the bubble system aimed to still implement the event as leisure activity while to prevent the contagion of Covid19, the pandemic virus Covid Sars that have affected all of life. The bubble system was a success in Thailand, and BWF thought it was the best way to remain organizing the badminton tournament in the forced major condition, because the cancellation in 2020 has been unbeneficial to many parties including the athletes. Bali was a considerable alternative due to the impact of the ruins of tourism business. Uniquely, although there was no spectators participation in the Indonesian Badminton Festival, there was an unexpected occurrence from Indonesia's badminton fans. They sent many gifts to almost all the players they loved bought from many shops in Bali and using package deliverer. Just a while, the committee with the sponsors affirmed that the gifts should be a certain gift bought from several shops from the sponsor. To see this phenomena of economics, the shifting from mode of gift to the mode of capitalism from the spontaneous actions was part of the operation of the market that reached the interests. However, the next unexpected event that was unseen and uncontrollable from the eye of capitalism from the sport domain, when the athletes gave each other gifts showed how the economics of gift and economy of capital is the kind of economic subjectivity. This paper will discuss the hybridity of the two economic modes in the case of the bubble system in the Indonesian Badminton Festival. Based on my observation through social media, through which I did corresponding relationships from the digital world when I as a researcher was being participant observer myself everyday in the online platform with several social medias. I collected many photos of athletes and the gifts, read the news from fansbase accounts , as well as noticed the news from the committee, public relation release to know the phenomena of take and give. I joined in the discussion and many comments of the occurrences and I wrote some notes. I will explain the data with the concept of subjectivity economy and the symmetrical economy. The result shows that although the sport is dominated by capitalism, it is possible to shift the mode of calculation to the mode of gift and conversely. Discovering the terra incognita in the relation of triadic in the sport can absolve the confinement of the views that sport always glorify capitalism. 

Keywords: Sport Capitalism, Economic Subjectivity, Symmetrical Economy, Bubble System of Badminton, Leisure Activity, Covid19