INDONESIA IN JAPAN REARRANGES INDONESIAN NATION THROUGH THE DIASPORA EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE

This research began with experience during my doctoral studies in Japan from 2012 to 2017. I observed a number of changes in the behavior, attitudes and views of several diaspora who had settled there. The direct observation found that most diaspora did not seem to care about their national character. Like when whenever we discuss workers and diaspora, the discussion often only revolves around the normative character. From the State side, the slogan is always directed to always provide support to the State. Instead social activists actually inject a narrative that they (the diaspora) are exploited by the State. So that the meaning of nationalism according to them actually contradicts what the State wants. Thus, it becomes important to observe how the sense of nationality disappears from the diaspora and does not know how the practice of nationality itself. The problem that arises is how the Indonesian diaspora understands, negotiates, and practices their nationalism. So that their views of their native lands change with their daily experiences.