Social Relations Indonesia and Japan

Although the country had become a colony of Japan, as time goes by Indonesia and
Japan found a point of peace and to establish bilateral cooperation in order to maintain
good diplomatic relations. Indonesia requires Japan and vice versa Japan also requires
Indonesia. Indonesia and Japan's cooperation to date has run approximately for 59 years
since 1958. The various sectors of cooperation has been run by Indonesia and Japan in the
fields of economy, education, culture and even cultural trade. Diplomacy becomes
important for the entire country today. Each country is negotiating with other countries to
jointly achieve their own national interests. This is also done between Indonesia and Japan
diplomacy to work together in various sectors to meet their individual interests and
maintain good relations between countries

Form of Cooperation between Indonesia and Japan in Economic Development

Many cooperation sectors have been done by Japan and Indonesia. The main thing
is the form of economic aid granted Japan to Indonesia. Japan provides assistance to many
developing countries one of Indonesia. Japan established a program called Official
Development Assistance (ODA), which is engaged in the field of economic development
assistance to developing countries for disaster relief assistance.
The assistance provided by Japan through ODA was recorded starting in 1954, in
the form of the training provided in three areas namely in health, agriculture and even
transportation. Since then, Indonesia has received special attention from Japan. ODA has
several categories namely aid, yen loans, grant aid and technical cooperation. ODA also
participated in a series of natural disaster relief in Indonesia such as natural structures and
infrastructure repairs after the tsunami in Aceh in 2004.
Trade, is one economic unit cannot be released from the cooperation between
Indonesia and Japan. The focus of the trade itself is an import-export issue between
Indonesia and Japan. Japan's imports from Indonesia, most commodities imported by Japan
from Indonesia are commodities or goods of natural resources such as horticultural crops,
the results of the mining, oil, gas and more. Meanwhile, Japanese export or import of
Indonesia from Japan were mostly commodities for the purposes of industrial fields such as
import or automotive, electronics, machinery and much more.
The investment included in the economic cooperation between Indonesia and
Japan. Indonesian investment relationship with Japan was up and down because of the
crisis on Indonesia. But it began to gradually well up to now. Japan is one country that has
the largest investment in Indonesia to set up and operate the companies belonging to the
Japanese in Indonesia, which many Indonesian workers employed. Therefore, Japan is one
of the countries that supply jobs in Indonesia.

Conclusion
Indonesia and Japan started their relationship by means of colonization. But after
that, Indonesia and Japan are related both to meet the interests of their respective countries.
Beginning of help in resolving the crisis experienced by Indonesia, diplomatic relations
with Japan continued until now.
Japan has provided assistance to Indonesia, both in terms of funding, the
construction of structures and infrastructure, and political dynamics. Has many projects
produced in collaboration between Indonesia - Japan, especially in the economic field and
then social and political as well. The toil of Indonesia in diplomacy for the sake of
establishing good cooperation with Japan is expected to continue to gain benefits for
Indonesia and is also for Japan.
The importance of diplomacy of every country to another country is expected to
obtain results and objectives to be achieved. Similarly, with the cooperation by Indonesia
with Japan as a form of appreciating diplomacy, which is expected to reach Indonesia's
national interests and maintain good relations between countries. And Japan also practiced
diplomacy with Indonesia to achieve the national interests of his country. No violence was
used in the handling of this cooperation but diplomacy to negotiate the interests of each
other.

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