Ketegangan Politik dan Pencapaian Kerja Sama Ekonomi Future Partnership Fund Oleh Jepang-Korea Selatan

ULFA LISA NGAINUN FADHILAH, Dra. Siti Daulah Khoiriati, M.A.

2024 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

Relasi Jepang dan Korea Selatan bisa dikatakan sebagai sebuah relasi unik yang digambarkan sebagai relasi “cold politics, hot economics” sejak normalisasi diplomatik di tahun 1965. Ketegangan politik akibat isu sejarah comfort women dan pekerja paksa masih sering muncul dan tereskalasi dalam konflik ekonomi. Meskipun demikian, kerja sama ekonomi di antara kedua negara masih tetap langgeng dalam ruang lingkup interdependensi dan justru semakin erat dengan formasi kerja sama ekonomi baru yang beragam. Di tahun 2017-2019, ketegangan politik akibat isu sejarah comfort women dan pekerja paksa kembali terjadi dan meluas pada sanksi-sanksi perekonomian kedua negara. Namun, di tahun 2023, Jepang dan Korea Selatan muncul kembali dalam upaya perbaikan relasi politik dan memperkuat relasi ekonomi melalui pembentukan kerangka kerja sama “Future Partnership Fund”. Tulisan ini kemudian hadir untuk menganalisis,  latar belakang mengapa pencapaian kerja sama ekonomi Future Partnership Fund yang dilakukan oleh aktor domestik kedua negara bisa tercapai di tengah ketegangan politik kedua negara yang masih sering terjadi. 

The relationship between Japan and South Korea can be said to be a unique relationship which has been described as a "cold politics, hot economics" relationship since their diplomatic normalization in 1965. Political tensions due to the historical issue of comfort women and forced labor still often arise and escalate in economic conflicts. Nevertheless, economic cooperation between the two countries remains lasting within the scope of interdependence and is actually getting more robust with the diverse and new formation of economic cooperation. In 2017-2019, political tensions due to the historical issues such as comfort women and forced labor raised again and extended to trade disputes between the two countries. However, in 2023, Japan and South Korea created a rapprochement effort to improve political relations and strengthen economic relations by establishing the formation of “Future Partnership Fund” as their new economic cooperation framework. This paper presents an analysis of the background of achieving “Future Partnership Fund” by domestic actors as their new economic cooperation can be achieved amidst the political tensions between the two countries which still frequently occur.

Kata Kunci : Kata Kunci: Ketegangan Politik, Isu Sejarah, Interdependensi Ekonomi, Kerja Sama Ekonomi, Aktor Domestik, Jepang, Korea Selatan. / Keywords: Political Tension, Historical Issue, Economic Interdependence, Economic Cooperation, Domestic Actor, Japan, South