Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Volume 26, Issue 3
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  • Local Administrative Units and Local Governors in Vietnam under Lý Dynasty
    Shiro Momoki
    1988 Volume 26 Issue 3 Pages 241-265
    Published: December 31, 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.26.3_241
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    This essay discusses the local administrative system linking the central government to village society. The first section presents the basic materials and points out issues in earlier studies concerning this subject. The second section examines the naming and distribution of each kind of unit. Generally speaking, there were only two lanks: the upper units like phủ, châu etc. and basic units like hươhng, giáp etc. Basic units were communes which had not been reorganized by the central government. Upper units were nothing more than honorary titles conferred on important and strong basic units. In such a simple system, complicated Chinese ideas about local administrative organization gave rise to irregular naming and calling of the units, some of which, for example, lộ, were invalid. The third section analyzes the functions of governors of châu and phủ. There was no distant difference between châu mục or thủ līnh, local chieftains recognized by the central government, and trị châu, a governor temporarily appointed, either in ethnicity or in non-bureaucratic functions. However, some strategic positions outside the Red River delta, especially Thanh Hóa, were governed by subordinate officials who had given royal service in the first half of the 12th century.
     In short, the local administrative system under the Lý dynasty was similar to that of muǎng states in Thai society, with a “feudal” relationship between the upper and lower units and, may be, “bureaucratic” administration inside the basic communes. In the last stage of Lý period in Vietnam, however, the germs of the bureaucratic local administration completed in the 15th century can be found, both in the Red River delta, where higher and wider units were formed, and in Thanh Hóa, where “patrimonial bureaucracy” was realized.
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  • A Note on Regional Differences in Occupational Structure in Rural Thailand
    Atsushi Kitahara
    1988 Volume 26 Issue 3 Pages 266-292
    Published: December 31, 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.26.3_266
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    Rural society in Thailand has been changing drastically in recent times. Around the big cities, agricultural households have cut back their agricultural activities as some of their members have become part-time or full-time laborers.
     This note considers regional differences in occupation structure in agricultural households from the viewpoint of the development of regional labor markets around big cities and the householders' efforts to modernize their agricultural management. It also examines the impact of uneven development of capitalism on rural labor markets and the ways in which different peasant social classes have adapted to this.
     It was found that the upper peasant class has adapted by sending some household members to the urban labor market and by modernizing its agricultural management, whereas the lower peasant class has adapted by having some household members engage in daily wage labor in the local rural area while continuing the traditional style of agricultural management. These modes of adaptation by the different peasant classes differ somewhat from that of prewar Japan, where the effort to modernize agriculture was made primarily by the middle class of part-owner peasants.
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  • Political Parties and the Military in Thailand:
    Prime minister's Office Order 66/2523
    Yoshifumi Tamada
    1988 Volume 26 Issue 3 Pages 293-307
    Published: December 31, 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.26.3_293
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    The military which has dominated Thai politics since 1932 is concerned about the recent emergence of political parties as significant political forces. The main contributors to this emergence are businessmen whose economic power has grown since the 1960s. Instead of political parties, local business tycoons play a crucial role in elections. On the other hand, owners of big businesses greatly influence these parties through monetary assistance.
     The military attacks these political parties through the Prime Minister's Office Order 66/2523, which is formally a counterinsurgency order. According to this order, democratic rule means rule for the majority of the people and politics must be democratized in order to defeat the Communist Party of Thailand. The present domination of parliamentary politics by businessmen's parties cannot be called democratic because it serves only businessmen's selfish interests.
     Clearly this attack is made for the military's purpose of preserving its own political interests. But the authenticity of the claim that the interests of the masses are little reflected in parliamentary politics in contemporary Thailand cannot be denied.
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  • Studies on Peat in the Coastal Plains of Sumatra and Borneo
    Part I: Physiography and Geomorphology of the Coastal Plains
    Supiandi Sabiham
    1988 Volume 26 Issue 3 Pages 308-335
    Published: December 31, 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.26.3_308
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    The physiography and geomorphology of the coastal plains in Jambi and South Kalimantan were studied with the aim of describing the recent sediments deposited there. For this purpose, borings were made along transects from inland to the coast to a depth of up to 6 meters.
     The results of these studies indicate the presence of five physiographic regions and fifteen geomorphic units in the coastal plain of Jambi. In the coastal plain of South Kalimantan, four physiographic regions and eleven geomorphic units were established.
     The landforms in both of these coastal plains were developed by peat and mineral soil deposits. These deposits started to accumulate during the Holocene period. In Jambi, peats situated in the ombrogenous peats zone, which sometimes exceed 6 meters in depth, have been deposited since the terrestrial soils on the Pleistocene terrace were transformed into fluviatile swampy soils to form the so-called peat-capped terrace. Peats on mangrove deposits situated in the riverine to brackish deposits zone were formed in later periods. In the brackish to marine deposits zone, the thin peats are very young.
     In South Kalimantan, peats situated in the riverine to brackish deposits zone have been deposited on mangrove deposits and on sand or gravel. I believe that the peat formation on sand or gravel is of the same age as the older peat in Jambi.
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