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Changes in the Structure of Farms and Farming in Indonesia between Censuses, 1963–1973: The Issues of Inequality and Near-Landlessness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Roger Montgomery  and
Toto Sugito
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Although the rate of land use for agriculture as a percentage of total area of the different islands varies tremendously, we have no operable definition of arable area, and therefore cannot determine how much of the arable area is being used agriculturally. We cannot begin to define when a “limit” to land use occurs. Even in certain parts of Jawa and Bali, increases in land use were found between the censuses, although 40 per cent to 50 per cent were already being used for agriculture.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , September 1980 , pp. 348 - 365
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1980

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The views presented in this paper do not represent official positions of any organizations but instead are the private opinions of the authors.

1 This may have been caused by the fact that traditional bengkok land, used as remuneration of village heads in lieu of salary, was not uniformly treated in the census and was often excluded.

2 School teachers, traders, landless labourers, government civil servants, etc., are already screened out by the first question.

3 Stoler, Ann, “Some Socio-Economic Aspects of Rice Harvesting in a Javanese Village”, Masyarakat Indonesia, LIPI, Jilid II, no. 1 (1975)Google Scholar.

4 Sensus Pertanian Indonesia 1973, Jilid I, Tables 4 and 5.

5 King, Dwight and Weldon, Peter, “Income Distribution and Levels of Living in Jawa, 1963–1970”, Economic Development and Cultural Change (1977)Google Scholar.