YOGYAKARTA- Coordination or cooperation of Indonesian community is very low or poor. The trend that emerges so far is that the community is mostly self-centered and difficult to trust others. That is the result of research and experiments conducted by a lecturer of the UGM Faculty of Economics and Business, Dr. Rimawan Pradiptyo, S.E., M.Sc. This study aims to measure how much a person’s desire to coordinate through a game. "The result is controversial because the coordination value obtained is very low, only 1-2 percent," said Rimawan to the reporters at the Fortakgama Room, Wednesday (1/3).
The results of Rimawan’s study consistently emerged since the first game until the last. The results also contradict with the findings of similar studies conducted in developed countries for many years, which show high desire to work together, although the subject faces the non-cooperative game. "Several studies in the USA and Europe indicate the desire to coordinate is about 40% at the beginning of the game and goes down to around 20% in the last game," he explained.
Research conducted by Rimawan brought him to win the Best Paper Award for the field of economic science in The Global Accounting, Finance, and Economics Conference, organized by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, from 14-15 February 2011. The research was supported by co-authors of two young economists who are graduates from UGM, namely Banoon Sasmitasiwi, M.Sc. and Gumilang Aryo Sahadewo, S.E. This study is entitled Evidence of Homo Economicus? Findings from Experiment on Prisoners? Dilemma Game.
The international conference was also attended by economists from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Uganda, with about 46 scientific papers presented at the seminar. Although there were five other speakers from Indonesia, Rimawan was the only speaker representing the university in Indonesia.
On that occasion, Rimawan conveyed the essence of the research which is to predict how immense the interdepartmental coordination of government and among members of the legislature can be done. They designed the experiment of 16 prisoners dilemma games in two sessions, in which he made payoffs perturbation (change in value of payoffs) and each player is scrambled, a pair of players had the opportunity to play only one game. "The subjects of this research were 96 staff and students at UGM," said Rimawan.
The majority of research subjects are students. You can only imagine how difficult to coordinate when they are already employed and have their own income. The findings from this research, according to Rimawan, may be able to explain the phenomenon of high interdepartmental and the so-called sectoral-ego or even among members of the legislative.
Rimawan said in Indonesia the word ‘coordination’ often only be understood merely as a meeting or even just “hang out”. There is no segregation of duties and no evaluation of the implementation of it. Ironically, there is no mechanism of reward and punishment if the coordination succeeds or fails. "So, maybe what many people say is true, coordination is a myth in Indonesia, but the reality is very different," Rimawan added.