Glocal Diary for Local-to-Local

Hari ini (14 Oktober 2020), setelah mengikuti rekaman WEBinar Indonesia-Japan Virtual Business Forum, situs JAIPONG juga diperkenalkan. Anda bisa mengikuti Indonesia-Japan Virtual Business Forum di dalam situs yang berikut: - Indonesia-Japan Virtual Business Forum  (YouTube) - JAIPONG (Bahasa Indonesia / Bahasa Jepang) Screen Shot dari Situs JAIPON Saat ini, Indonesia bekerja keras untuk menarik investasi dari luar negeri, terutama karena mendesak pemulihan perekonomian dari dampak Covid-19. Sebenarnya, upaya penarikan investasi PMA (Penanaman Modal Asing) terlihat serius setelah mengetahuinya banyak perusahaan Tiongkok relokasi ke Vietnam dan belum ada ke Indonesia. Indonesia tidak boleh kalah dari Vietnam dalam persaigan penarikan invesitasi PMA. Dalam rangka pembangunan jangka panjang sampai tahun 2045, Indonesia harus mengatasi middle income trap (kalah dari negara yang memiliki biaya tenaga kerjanya rendah, kalah juga dari negara yang memiliki teknologi dan produktivitas ting...

I myself have worked in Indonesian studies for 35 years, and during that time, I have made efforts to deepen my experience and expertise in regional/community development in my own way for 25 years. Therefore, when people ask me what I specialize in, I try to answer that there are two main areas: Indonesian studies and regional/community development. I became strongly aware of regional/community development in 1995, when I started to work as a regional development policy advisor for Eastern Indonesia. Prior to that, for two years from 1993, I had studied whether Japan's industrial policy would be effective for the industrial development of Southeast Asian countries. Just then, the World Bank published a report called "The East Asian Miracle," which drew attention to the fact that the World Bank, which had kept a market fundamentalist stance, had given a certain amount of credit to Japanese-style industrial policy. In Japan's industrial policy, there was a discussion a...