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One of the most significant fact about Japan is that It is the only major non-Western country that has become a thoroughly industrialized and modernized democracy. But the so-called economic miracle, however is not the only remarkable feature. Two other features of Japanese life are noteworthy. One is the way the Japanese have kept alive and actually breathed new vigor into their traditional culture?Its arts and way of life. The other is the political and social changes that have accompanied economic modernization.This economic modernization has been branded by the West as Japan Incorporated with the process of unique characteristic of Japan Incorporated with its intricate web of financial and non financial relationship between companies linking them in a pattern of formal and informal obligation and enjoying the guidance of the government in pursuing Intel-nationalization. Indonesia and Japan belong to the same hemisphere, that is Asia. While Indonesia is also a maritime country, still keeping the traditional culture and just since 1990s starting to enter economic modernization in the urban and suburban life. Most Indonesian business organizations grew from small family businesses and with no formal structure. Some of them became big business and quite a number grew into medium size enterprises. Industrial alliance with backward and forward linkages among the large ones and medium enterprises Is until nowadays still negligible. The Indonesian business society does not conduct intricate web of financial and non financial relationship with the guidance of the government as exposed by the Japanese Therefore the idea of "Indonesia Incorporated" copying from the Japanese one still remains an unfulfilled dream. |
