日系合弁企業工場におけるインドネシア人作業員(<記念号>本岡武教授退官記念号)

Abstract

This is the second report on research into interpersonal relations among urban people in Indonesia conducted by the author in Jakarta in 1975 to 1976. In this report the data obtained from interviews with sixty-two Indonesian workers in two Japanese-Indonesian joint venture factories are presented. 1. The background of the sample Indonesian workers, including their age, marital status, birth place, ethnic group, religion, channel of employment, and monthly income, is recorded. Differences between the two factories, which were opened at different times, are also discussed. 2. The life-style of the workers, including their patterns of monthly expenditure, remittance to kin in the country, loans and debts, is examined. The frequent monetary exchanges between kin and friends are pointed out. 3. The value system of the workers, including their evaluation of factory work, and attitudes to work and income are recorded. Some differences in attitude are found between laborers and farmers reflecting the effects of modernization. 4. The Indonesian workers' evaluation of the Japanese-Indonesian factories, including their relationship with Japanese supervisors, motivation for working at Japanese factories, attitude toward future employment, and evaluation of the role of Japanese enterprises in Indonesia are examined. The responses are in general neither very sympathetic nor very critical, with a few exceptions.