Comparative Study on the local Society, Life and Culture between West-Java and South-Kyushu areas.

我们的共同研究是针对共同的问题进行的：即如何将当地社会的经济发展与自身文化价值的保护结合起来。通过对成功实现“多元一体”国训的印度尼西亚和国民经济发展闻名的日本的比较研究，我们试图寻找在不可避免的社会变革下维持地区认同的可能性。对此，我们在西爪哇和鹿儿岛这两个地区进行了实地研究并举办了公开论坛。关于西爪哇的社会经济结构，即使在城市居民中，仍然保持着互助制度。然而，受过高等教育的人数正在迅速增加，现在存在着一大批所谓的“新中产阶级”，他们的社会良知和生活方式正在很大程度上向西化。关于西爪哇城市地区的服装文化和饮食习惯，可以证实的是，尽管如此西化，但传统品味的硬核并不容易被驱逐。例如，与日本日常生活中很少见的和服相比，许多印度尼西亚老年妇女几乎每天都穿着民族服装。在民间宗教、传统体育或公共娱乐等场景中，西爪哇（巽他）人普遍表现出对自己习俗的深深依恋。这可以说是一个独特的现象。因为对于生活在鹿儿岛的我们来说，现代化往往伴随着社会和文化的统一，使我们的本土身份被淡化。通过这种比较研究，整体上阐明了地方的多样性可以转化为民族的活力。

Our joint research was carried out with common problematique : that is, how to combine economic development of the local society and preservation of its own cultural values.By the comparative study between Indonesia who realizes successfully its national motto "unity in diversity" and Japan whose nationwide economic development is well-known, we tried to find the possibility of maintenance of regional identities under the inevitable social changes.On this subject we did field researches and held open forums in both areas, West Java and Kagoshima.Regarding socio-economic structures, West Java is still keeping mutual aid system even among the urban residents.However the number of the highly educated has been increasing rapidly, and now there exists a mass of what is called New middle classes whose social conscience and life style are largely changing into the westernized ones.About clothing culture and dietary habits in the urban area of West Java, it is confirmed that in spite of this westernization a hard core of traditional taste cannot be expelled so easily.For example, compared with kimono which is rarely seen in Japanese daily life, many elder Indonesian women are wearing their folk costume almost every day.In the scenes of folk religion, traditional sports or public entertainment, this West Javanese (Sundanese) people present in general a deep attachment to their customs.It can be said to be a distinctive phenomenon.Because, as for us who live in Kagoshima, modernization has often accompanied with social and cultural uniforming by which our local identity could be faded.Through this comparative study, as a whole, it was clarified that local diversity can be transformed into a national vitality.