About Staff： FY2006
OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Associate Professor
- Division of Integrated Area Studies
- LL. A in Comparative Politics, Kyoto University, 1994
M. A. in Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, 1996
Current Research Interests
- Local politics
- Decentralization
- Privatized violence
My intellectual interest is how to understand local politics in Southeast
Asia, especially Indonesia, where democratization and decentralization
have brought about radical changes in local politics. I have done research
for several years in Indonesia and am now tracing and describing the newly
emerging local political pattern and structure in several provinces. I
am interested, first, in how political actors try to seize and maintain
political power at the local level. Second, the state overwhelmed society
during the authoritarian Suharto era and its fall liquidated that state-society
relationship. Each region now shows a unique state-society relationship,
and I am analyzing their differences and similarities.
The main outputs of my research are articles on a politically ascendant
violent group in Banten province and on the local politics of Gorontalo
province, a comparative analysis of the local political structures of Banten
and Gorontalo provinces, and an analysis of the impact of introducing direct
elections for regional head in 2005.
Research Activities in 2006 Fiscal Year
- Publications
-
- Okamoto Masaaki, Indonesianized Ocean, and the Possibility of Its Deconstruction,
Creation of Mutual Trust through East Asian "Sea" . Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten
- Okamoto Masaaki, Epilog: Otonomi Masyarakat dan Pembangunan dari Dalam;
Belajar dari Jepang In Abdul Malik dan Delfion Saputra eds. Dinamika Otonomi
Daerah di Banten, Serang: Biro Humas Pemerintah Provinsi Banten, 169-184
- Okamoto Masaaki, Broker Keamanan di Jakarta: Yang Profesional dan Yang
Berbasis Massa, Okamoto Masaaki dan Abdur Rozaki eds., Kelompok Kekerasan
dan Bos Lokal di Indonesia Era Reformasi, Yogyakarta: IRE Press. pp.1-19.
- Okamoto Masaaki and Abdur Rozaki, Pengantar Editor, Okamoto Masaaki dan
Abdur Rozaki eds.,2006. Kelompok Kekerasan dan Bos Lokal di Indonesia Era
Reformasi, Yogyakarta: IRE Press. pp.ix-xxii.
- Okamoto Masaaki and Abdur Rozaki eds., 2006. Kelompok Kekerasan dan Bos
Lokal di Indonesia Era Reformasi, Yogyakarta: IRE Press. xxii p.+161p.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 2006, Indonesia: Concentration, Unravelling and Dispersion
of Power, in Introductory Political Economy in Asia, eds. by Katayama Yutaka and Ohnishi Yutaka, Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
- Okamoto Masaaki, 2006. Violent Group in Political Rise: Its Historical
Background and Social Characteristics in the Banten Province(in Japanese),
Local Societies in Modern Indonesia: Approach of Micrology, ed. by Sugishima Takashi and Nakamura Kiyoshi. Tokyo: NTT Press. 43-66.
-
- Joint Research Projects
-
- Research Topic：The Emerging "New" Leaders in the Democratized Countries and
Globalization: Asia and Russia
- Individual Research Topic： Analysing 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：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：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
-
▲To top of research activities
- Field Research
-
- Term:July 16, 2006 - July 26, 2006
- Area: DKI Jakarta and Gorontalo Province
- Project:Kakenhi (B) "Changing of Local Political Economy in the Democratized
and Decentralized Indonesia"
- Term:May 12, 2006 - May 23, 2006
- Area:DKI Jakarta
- Project:Kakenhi Grant-In-Aid for Young Scientists (B) "Analysis on the Local
Political Restructuring in the Democratized Indonesia: Focusing on the
Public Works"
- Term：November 8, 2005 - April 9, 2006
- Area：Jakarta Liaison Office
-
- Seminars/Symposia
-
- Name of Academic Association:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program Workshop on "The Thai Coup d'etat
and Post Authoritarian Southeast Asia - The Shifting Balance of Social
Powers
- Topic:Session IV: Social Resistance and Good Governance in Southeast Asia
- Moderator：OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Place:Kyodai Kaikan,
- Term:March 13, 2007
- Title:Yale Indonesia Forum Workshop: Islam, Regionalism, and New Institutions:
A Decade of Radical Transformation in Indonesia
- Date & Time:March 3, 2007
- Topic:Jawara in Power: Rise of Hegemonic Local Power in the Banten Province,
1998-2006
- Presenter:OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer:Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Depatment of Political Science, and
Department of History, Yale University and the Indonesia Research Unit,
Justus-Liebig, University Giessen
- Title: International Workshop on (IN)Formal Violence and Democratization in Southeast
Asia
- Date & Time:February 17-18, 2007
- Place:GM Hall, SASA International House, Chulalongkorn University
- Topic:Hyper-Privatization of Security in Indonesia: Two Types of Security Brokers
in Jakarta
- Program:JSPS Core University Program
- Organizer:Mekong Research Unit, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
and CSEAS
- Title:Workshop on Sulawesi Area Studies
- Date & Time:August 23, 2006
- Place: Losari Metro Hotel, Makassar, Indonesia,
- Topic:Pemuda Gorontalo Naik ke Pentas Polotik: Politik Pembentukan Provinsi Gorontalo
1998-2000
- Presenter:OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer:CSEAS, Hasanuddin University
- Title:Civil Society in East Asia
- Date & Time:July 15, 2006
- Place: Osaka City University
- Topic:Security Brokers in Jakarta, Indonesia: the Future of Privatized Violence
- Presenter:OKAMOTO, Masaaki
- Organizer: Osaka City University
-
<<< To staff list | ▲Top of This Page
|
