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

我们在进行联合研究时遇到了一个共同的问题：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”国训的印度尼西亚与全国经济发展闻名的日本的比较研究，我们试图找到在不可避免的社会变革下维持区域认同的可能性。关于这个问题，我们在西爪哇和鹿儿岛这两个地区进行了实地研究，并举行了公开论坛。关于社会经济结构，西爪哇甚至在城市居民中仍然保持互助制度。然而，受过高等教育的人数迅速增加，现在出现了一大批所谓的新中产阶级，他们的社会意识和生活方式在很大程度上正在向西方化转变。关于西爪哇市区的服装文化和饮食习惯，可以肯定的是，尽管这种西方化，但传统品味的核心是不能轻易被驱逐的。例如，与日本人日常生活中很少见到的和服相比，印度尼西亚的许多老年妇女几乎每天都穿着她们的民族服装。在民间宗教、传统体育或公共娱乐的场景中，这种西爪哇人（巽他人）普遍表现出对他们的习俗的深深的依恋。这可以说是一种独特的现象。因为，对于我们这些生活在鹿儿岛的人来说，现代化往往伴随着社会和文化的统一，我们的地方身份可能会褪色。通过这一比较研究，从整体上阐明了地方多样性可以转化为民族活力。

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.