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society where land ownership is not equally distributed. As
has been mentioned several times, through tenancy arrange-
ments the landless can get access to land for cultivation.
However, to what extent this access to land really leads to a

greater access to wealth derived from agricultural production,
still very much depends on the types of tenancy arrangement
or contract that the cultivators adopt, since the types of
contracts determine the types of labor use and allocation. In
short, tenancy is also related to labor market.
On the other hand, types of contract also influence “re-
turns to land” which, in practice, means accumulated wealth
enjoyed by the landowners. In this respect, therefore, ten-
ancy is interrelated with land ownership, labor market, sources
of income and hence wealth.
In this subsection, and the tree subsections that follow,
tenancy status, tenancy contacts, and their links with sawah
owned and sawah cultivated will be discussed descriptively.
The links between tenancy, the labor market and sources of
income will be discussed in section E. 18

18 It is not the immediate aim of this paper to arrive at a final
conclusion by simply using re-census data. It must be kept in
mind, however, that the discussion and the presentation of infor-
mation on these matters are mainly aimed at providing some
basis from which further analysis using other sets of data (from
the resurvey data, for example) may be undertaken.

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