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Tobias Axelsson
Senior lecturer, Director of first and second cycle studies, Department of Economic History
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State led agricultural development and change in Yogyakarta 1973-1996
Author
Editor
- Ellen Hillbom
- Patrick Svensson
Summary, in English
The study is based on statistical data form Yogyakarta and also policy documents and interviews with farmers and local civil servants. This gives a good picture of the transformation process and also the driving forces behind it.
The findings show that the villages, and the province, chosen for this study mirror the development for Java as a whole. It is interesting to see that the state has played a crucial role, both positively and negatively, in the transformation process. In a sense the state has forcefully modernised the agricultural sector but failed to create a broad base for continued agricultural development and as a consequence the rapid change of the late 1970s is replaced with a much slower development throughout the remainder of the Suharto regime.
Department/s
- Department of Economic History
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
86-107
Publication/Series
Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Economic History
Keywords
- Agriculture
- Agricultural transformation
- economic development
- Java
- Indonesia
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-0-415-68495-8