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About Staff: FY2005

Division of Economics and Politics
MIZUNO, Kosuke (Professor)
Development Studies

 

Research Interests

I have employed both institutional and historical approaches in my study of the Indonesian economy as well as the area study approach when examining land, labor, and capital as integral parts of the economy. My research concerns have also included studying the development and the role of people's organizations, and how social capital is attained or lost in communities.

I have conducted a number of case studies on the non-farm sector and rural industries in the Indonesian countryside, the results of which have been published in my book Community-Based Industry in Indonesia: What Is a Path to the Recovery of Asian Economies? (Kyoto University Press, 1999). This study delved into the characteristics of community-based industry, which is the main form of small-scale industry in Indonesia. One of its findings point to "regional units like neighboring households, neighboring organizations, hamlets, and administrative villages [as forming the] social basis to some extent for the development of economic networks of the people who participated in the community-based industries."

My essay in the edited volume, Economic Development and Land Systems in South-East Asia (IDE, 1997), examined the weakness of land rights of rural peoples in relation to the state. Another essay in another edited volume on labor, Rural Employment in Southeast Asia (IDE, 1995), presented employment concepts to analyze the non-farm sector in rural Southeast Asia. My research on rural industrialization, published in Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Study of Community-Based Weaving Industry in West Java (IDE, 1996), likewise showed that rural industry and the non-firm sector improved income distribution among rural peoples, but did not change the income distribution hierarchy.

Current research topics:

(1) The state of labor unions, industrial relations, production organization, wage system, and political environment since the fall of Soeharto
(2) Community-based development and people's organizations in Indonesia
(3) Small scale industry in the development of the Indonesian economy

Research Activities in 2005 Fiscal Year

Publication
    
  1. Mizuno Kosuke, Potential Paths to Stable Industrial Relations in Indonesia: Strengths and Weakness of Trade Unions with Weak Law Enforcement, in 21st Century Work: High Road or Low Road ?, Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relatios Academics of Australian and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), Adelaide 1-3 February 2006, Volume 2, pp.49-57
  1. Mizuo Kosuke, Tsujii Hiroshi, Ageng Heriyanto, ”Forest Management and Locl People, How can We Reach to Sustainable Development ? A Case Study at West Java, Indonesia", in Toward Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia: From Management to Eco-Tourism, Reseach Center for Regional Resources, The Indonesian Institute of Science, in Cooperation with the Japan Foundation, Jakarta 2005, pp. 159-176
  1. Kosuke Mizuno, A Path to Stable Industrial Relations in Indonesia: Industrial Conflict Resolutions under Weak Law、Enforcement, 4th International Symposium of Jornal Antoropologi Indonesia, "Indonesia in the Changing Global Context:Building Cooperation and Partnership?", FISIP UI Depok, July 12-15, 2005, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, p.69
  1. Mizuno Kosuke, "Recent Situation of Industrial Relations in Indonesia-What has changed and unchanged ?", JANNI News Letter, Vol 51, August 2005
  1. Mizuno Kosuke, Community-based Industry in Indonesia: A Path to overcome the Asian Economic Crisis, Kyoto:Kyoto University Press, June 2005, OD Edition (in Japanese)
  1. Taizo Wada, Chizu Wada, Masayuki Ishine, Kiyohito Okumiya, Toshihiko Kawakita, Mutsuo Fushida, Toru Kita, Kosuke Mizuno and Kozo Matubayashi、 Comprehensive geriatric assessment for commmnity-dwelling elderly in Asia compared with those in Japan: V West Java in Indonesia、Geriatric and Gerontology International 2005, 5:168-175
  1. Book Review, Indonesian Rural Economy after Monetary Crisis, Nihon-hyoron, 2004 in Jurnal Agriculture and Economy,Vol 71 No.5, May 2005 (in Japanese)
Database
  1. Title:Data base of Local Parliaments' Members in Indonesia (Kaken of local Politics in Indonesia)
Field Research
  1. Term:December 13 - 20, 2005
  2. Area:Bandung and Karawang District, West Java
  3. Project:Changing of Local Political Economy in the Democratized and Decentralized Indonesia, Scientific Research (Kakenhi)(B)
  4. Research Topic:Village administration, people's organization and rural economy
  1. Term:August 22 - 31, 2005
  2. Area:Toraja area, South Sulawesi
  3. Project:Natural Resource Management and Socio-economic Transformation under the Decentralization in Indonesia: Toward Sulawesi Area Studies, Scientific Research (Kakenhi)(A)
  4. Field Topic:People's organizations and natural resource management in Indonesia
  1. Term:July 22 - August 2, 2005
  2. Area:Cianjur Distict, West Java, Indonesia
  3. Project:Environment Friendly Sustainable Agricultural Development in Rural Indonesia, Core University program between University of Tokyo and Bogor Agricultural University
  4. Research Topic:Time Series Data Collection of House Hold Survey in West Java since 1998
Joint Research Project
  1. Research Topic: Changing of Local Political Economy in the Democratized and Decentralized Indonesia
  2. Term:2005 -2008
  3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (B)
  4. Leader:MIZUNO, Kosuke
  5. Outline of Project:Collections and analysis of basic data on local political economy and people's organization
  6. No. of Members:10
  7. Members in CSEAS:6
  1. Research Topic: Comprehensive Studies on “Aging” in Southeast Asia-Toward Restructure of Safety Net system
  2. Term:2005 -2008
  3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (A)
  4. Leader:HAMASHITA, Takeshi
  5. Outline of Project:Aging in Indonesia; Safety Net System of the Society
  6. No. of Members:10
  7. Members in CSEAS:8
Seminar/Symposium
  1. Title:Seminar Sehari Pengelolahan Sumberdaya Alam dan lingkungan dalam Masa Transisi dari Sentraristik ke Desentralistik Kerjasama Universitas Hasanuddin, Kyoto University, dan Universitas Kristen Indonesia Toraja
  2. Date & Time:March 13, 2006
  3. Place:Tana Toraja, Indonesia
  4. Topic: “Pemilikan lahan dan adapt Toraja berkaitan dengan manajemen sumberdaya alam(Land Ownership and Custumary Law in Toraja with special reference to Natural Resources Management) ”
  5. PresenterMIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title:JSPS Core University Program Workshop "Kelompok-Kelompok Kekerasan Daerah dan Politik Lokal di Indonesia Pasca-Suharto (Local Violent Groups and Politics in the Post-Suharto Indonesia)
  2. Date & Time:March 11, 2006
  3. Place:CSEAS Jakarta Riasion Office, Jakarta Indonesia
  4. Coordinator:MIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title:JSPS Core University Program Workshop " Network Theory in Asian Studies: Its Performance and Challenges to Next Steps"
  2. Date & Time:March 6, 2006
  3. Place:CSEAS, Kyoto
  4. Program:PDF
  5. Coordinator:MIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title:Seminar of Indonesian Study Group, Indonesian Project
  2. Date & Time:Feb. 8, 2006
  3. Place:Australian National University, Canberra
  4. Topic: “Labor Law Reform and Industrial Dispute Settlement in Indonesia,“
  5. PresenterMIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title: Kansai Labor Law Research Group
  2. Date & Time:Jan. 29, 2006
  3. Place:Kobe University
  4. Topic: “Labor Law and Recent Labor Law Reform in Indonesia, with special reference to employment reraltions termination and the right of strikes"
  5. PresenterMIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title:JSPS Core University Program Workshop 2005 "Toward A New Model of East Asian Society: Entrepreneurship and the Family
  2. Date & Time:Oct 14, 2005 - Oct 15, 2005
  3. Place:Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
  4. Sponsor:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program
  5. Summary:PDF
  6. Program:PDF
  1. Title:International Workshop in "Toward Sustainable Development in Southeaast Asia: From Forest Management to Eco-tourism"
  2. Date & Time:August 9 - 10, 2005
  3. Place:Indonesian Institute of Science, Jakarta
  4. Presentation:"Forest Managemant and locl People, How Can We Reach to Sustainable Development ?, Case Study at West Java, Indonesia"
  5. Presenter:MIZUNO, Kosuke
  1. Title:4th International Symposium of Journal Antolopologi Indonesia -INDONESIA IN THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT: BUILDING COOPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP?
  2. Date & Time:July 12, 2005 - 15, 2005
  3. Place:Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Depok
  4. Panel: Image and Facts of Industrial Relations in the Era of Reformation and Globalization in Indonesia (Cordinator: Kosuke Mizuno)
  5. Presentation:"A Path to Stable Industrial Relations in Indonesia: Industrial Conflict Resolutions under Weak Law Enforcement" (Presenter: MIZUNO, Kosuke )
Outside Activity
  1. Name:Jakarta Newspaper Japan
  2. Article:Party to introduce the assignment of New Director
  3. Date:February 20, 2006
  1. Lecture: "Sustainable Development and People's Organizations in Rural Southeast Asia; People's Participation for Good Governance
  2. Organizer: Research Institute of Sustainable Humanoshere, Kyoto University
  3. Date: November 18, 2005
  4. Place: Research Institute of Sustainable Humanoshere
Activity in Academic Association
  1. Academic Association:Annual Congress of Japan Society of Asian Law
  2. Presentation:Labour Law Reform and Newly Forming Industrial Relations in Indonesia; Musywarah, Rule of Law, and Law Enforcement" (Presenter: Noboru Ishikawa)
  3. Place:Waseda University
  4. Term:November 18, 2005
  1. Academic Association:Annual Conference of Japan Society of Asian Political Economy, West Japan Branch
  2. Panel:"Changes of Local Politics in Decentralizing Indonesia" (Chair Person: Kosuke Mizuno)
  3. Place:Doshisha University
  4. Term:June 11, 2005