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About StaffAbout StaffOKAMOTO, Masaaki
Current Research Interests
Going to the Polls: picture of voters at the Indonesian general election 2009 At present I have three intellectual interests. The first 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 have tried to explain
the emerging political stabilization at the local level after several years
of severe unstable politics. My tentative argument is that the blossoming
of new regions and the ethnic, religious and/or regional balance of candidates
in local direct elections contribute to the decrease in horizontal disparities
and stabilize local politics. My second interest is on the privatization
of security especially in Indonesia. The end of the cold war globally prompted
security privatization and this has very much been the case in Southeast
Asia. Post-Suharto Indonesia has seen the rise of various types of security
providers. I am currently researching on their gradual evolution and/or
transformation with the consolidation of democracy in Indonesia. Some of
the providers have shrewdly transformed themselves and have succeeded to
play politically dominant roles at a local level. Finally, I am interested
in the politics of plantations especially that of palm oil in Southeast
Asia. With the rising importance of bio-fuels, palm oil plantations are
expanding at a phenomenal rate in archipelagic Southeast Asia. My research
focus is on how the pro-plantation discourse has been forged globally,
nationally and locally to justify its reckless expansion.
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