Sustainable Development and Local Autonomy in Rural Society: Research on Local Autonomy and Reorganizing Administrative System in Rural Java

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380708
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Sugiyama Jogakuen University
• Principal Investigator: HUROYANAGI HARUO 椙山女学園大学, 文化情報学部, 名誉教授 (80097691)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地方分権化 / ジャワ農村 / 民主化 / 村落自治 / インドネシア / 農村社会学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is based on qualitative field research carried out in rural Java in order to clarify how village democracy has been promoted by local autonomy reform since the fall of the Suharto regime. Among the key elements of the research are: 1)Analysis of laws and rules related to local autonomy or decentralization; 2)Analysis of village government, the village representative body(the Law No.22/1999) or village consultative council(the Law No.32/2004), the hamlet-and other people’s organizations such as the neighborhood association; 3)Analysis of the role of the framework of democracy in decision making on the village-and hamlet level. While democratization has thoroughly penetrated society down to the village level, it is clear that village residents should be more educated in order to be good “democratic villagers”.

Free Research Field

農村社会学