About Staff: FY2005
 Division of Economics and Politics
OKAMOTO, Masaaki (Associate Professor)
Political Science
Research Interests
My interest is in local politics in Southeast Asia. The colonial states
and subsequent nation-states of Southeast Asia established borderlines
which administratively and spatially divide states into regions. These
regions represent arenas of local politics within which political struggles
for power and money take place. My research observes the style and structure
of local politics and seeks to ascertain what differentiates one region
from another. I have been studying local politics in Indonesia within a
historical and comparative perspective in order to answer this question.
Current research topics:
(1) Establishing the historical continuity of the local elite in West Java
province, Indonesia
I am trying to prove that colonial-era local bureaucrats, with origins
in the higher social strata, rather successfully retained politically important
positions in the local arena even after the birth of the Indonesian nation-state.
My research reconsiders the common perception that the Indonesian national
revolution represented a totally fresh start for the Indonesian people.
(2) Describing the on-going decentralization process in Indonesia
I am explaining decentralization from an institutional viewpoint and mapping
out local political structures in three provinces since decentralization.
Research Activities in 2005 Fiscal Year
- Publication
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- Okamoto Masaaki, 12. 2005, The 2005 Direct Election of Local Heads: How
the Local Politics and Administration Will Change?(in Japanese), Jetro-IDE
World Trend No.123, pp.38-40.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 8. 2005, So Peaceful 2004 Election ? In Relationship with
the History of “Politics and Violence” in Indonesia(in Japanese), The 2004
Elections in Indonesia and the New Government in Motion: from Megawati
to Yudhoyono ed. by Matui Kazuhisa and Kawamura Koichi, Akashi Shoten,
pp.200-226.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 8. 2005, Decentralized/Separate Model to Weak Centralized/Concurrent
Model ? the New Decentralization Scheme and the Victory of the Ministry
of Home Affairs(in Japanese), The 2004 Elections in Indonesia and the New
Government in Motion: from Megawati to Yudhoyono ed. by Matui Kazuhisa
and Kawamura Koichi, Akashi Shoten, pp.343-362.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 6. 2005, Activated Local Power Politics in Indonesia and
the Birth of a Provincial "Governor-General": Politics in the
Banten Area, 1998-2003(in Japanese), Southeast Asian Studies 34(1), pp.3-25.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 4. 2005, Belated Reformasi in South Sulawesi, Indonesia:
The Declining Political Power of the Golkar Party in 2004(in Japanese),
Aziya Kenkyu (Asian Studies) 51(2), pp.62-82.
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- Field Research
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- Term:November 8, 2005 - April 9, 2006
- Area:Jakarta Liaison Office
- Term:August 10 - September 1, 2005
- Area:, DKI Jakarta, Gorontalo Province, South Sulawesi Province
- Project:Young Scientists (B) "Analysis on the Local Political Restructuring
in the Democratized Indonesia: Focusing on the Public Works" and Scientific
Research (A) "Natural Resource Management and Socio-economic Transformation
under the Decentralization in Indonesia: Toward Sulawesi Area Studies"
- Research Topic:: Making a research on local politcs at the Gorontalo province and conducting
a socio-economic research at Tana Toraja district, South Sulawesi province
- Term:July 11 - 17, 2005
- Area:Indonesia
- Project:Scientific Research (B) "Changing of Local Political Economy in the
Democratized and Decentralized Indonesia"
- Research Topic:To make a presentation at the international symposium of Indonesian Anthoropology
Society
- Term:June 19 - 24, 2005
- Area: Hasanuddin University,
- Project:Scientific Research (A) "Natural Resource Management and Socio-economic
Transformation under the Decentralization in Indonesia: Toward Sulawesi
Area Studies"
- Research Topic:Having a meeting to discuss the way to make a collaborative research with
Hasanuddin University
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- Joint Research Project
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- Research Topic:Project 7 "Enterpreneurship in East Asia: Political, Economic, Cultural
and Social Initiatives :Establishing a New Model of East Asian Political
Economy; Doing a research on the political violence in Indonesia
- Indivisual Research Topic:Doing a research on the political violence in Indonesia
- Term:2005 - 2008
- Sponsor:JSPS Core University Program: Social Science Region Making in East Asia
- Leader:MIZUNO, Kosuke
- Outline: Making a Collaborative Research on East Asian Political Economy with the
Japanese and East Asian Social Scientists
- No. of Members:40
- Members in CSEAS:5
- Research Topic: 'Comprehensive Studies on “Aging” in Southeast Asia-Toward Restructure
of Safety Net system'
- Indivisual Research Topic: Analysing the social safety net policies related to "aging"
in Indonesia and Thailand
- Term: 2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (A)
- Leader:. HAMASHITA, Takeshi
- Outline:Making a research on "aging" from the viewpoint of political
science and public policy
- No. of Members:8
- Members in CSEAS:6
- Research Topic:Changing of Local Political Economy in the Democratized and Decentralized
Indonesia
- Indivisual Research Topic:Analysing the Political economic structure of South and West Sulawesi Provinces,
- Term:2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (B)
- Leader:MIZUNO, Kosuke
- Outline:Collecting the data on candidates for regional government heads and local
government budget in collaboration with LIPI
- No. of Members:5
- Members in CSEAS:2
- Research Topic:The Emerging "New" Leaders in the Democratized Countries and
Globalization: Asia and Russia
- Indivisual Research Topic: Analysing on the emerging new leaders in the democratized Indonesia
- Term:2005 - 2006
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (B)
- Leader: TAMADA, Yoshifumi
- Outline:Making a research on the newly emerging regional government heads in the
democratized Indonesia,
- No. of Members:6
- Members in CSEAS:1
- Research Topic:Natural Resource Management and Socio-economic Transformation under the
Decentralization in Indonesia: Toward Sulawesi Area Studies
- Term:2004 - 2006
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (A)
- Leader:TANAKA, Koji
- Outline:Making Collaborative Research with the Hasanuddin University (Makassar)
and Utilizing the Makassar Field Station budgeted by 21st COE Project
- No. of Members:10
- Members in CSEAS:6
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- Seminar/Symposium
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- Seminar:Sulawesi Area Studies
- Date:October 21, 2005
- Place:CSEAS
- Topic:Making of Gorontalo Province and Politics of Maze
- Presenter:OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer:CSEAS
- Seminar:Understanding the "Modernity" in Indonesia
- Dat: October 1, 2005
- Place: National Museum of Ethnology
- Topic:Politics of Introducing the Concept of "Entrepreneurial Governance":
Local Politcs at the Gorontalo Province in Indonesia: 1998-2004
- Presenter:OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer: National Museum of Ethnology
- Seminare:Souteast Asia in Comparative Perspective
- Date: September 23, 2005
- Place:CSEAS
- Topic: Study on Indonesian Politics: Authoritarian Regime to Democratic Regime
- Presenter: OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer:CSEAS
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- Activity in Academic Association
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- Academic Association:4th International Symposium of the Journal Antropologi Indonesia: Indonesia
in the Changing Global Context: Building Cooperation and Partnership?
- Topic:Panel 16: Emergence of New Local Politics in the Decentralization Era (Moderator)
- Place:University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
- Term:July 13, 2005
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- Academic Association:4th International Symposium of the Journal Antropologi Indonesia: Indonesia
in the Changing Global Context: Building Cooperation and Partnership?
- Topic:Voluntary Retreat of the State and After: Emerging New Pattern(s) of Local
Politics in the Decentralized Indonesia: 1998-2004 (Presenter)
- Place:University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
- Term: July 13, 2005
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