Abstract:
Development assistance becomes an important issue in international relations today. Through development assistance, donor countries and related agency can contributes to the development of politic, economic and social in developing countries. This research explains about the role of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) for Indonesia infrastructure development. The time period of this research is during President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s leadership from 2014 to 2016. This research is classified into analytical and descriptive research that using qualitative as the research methodology. The result of this research shows that Japan’s contribution through ODA is in line with the policy of President Jokowi to prioritize infrastructure development in Indonesia. Infrastructure development is very essential to increasing Indonesia’s competitiveness as well as to facilitating better business and industry environment. Other than that, infrastructure development can strengthening regional integration of Southeast Asia. In other word, ODA is very important to bridge diplomatic relations between Japan and Indonesia.
