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When we look at two distinct tenancy status groups, that
is “tenant-in” and “tenant-out”, and types of contract, by sawah
owned, it appears that in the “tenant-in” group the proportion
of households who own less than 0.25 ha (the “bottom”) is

more dominant than in “tenant-out” group, both for the share
type and the renting type of contacts. For the mortgage type
of contracts, most owner-non-operators were “bottom”
owners (Table 6.16.).

6. Sawah Cultivated, Tenancy Status and Contracts
In this section we examine features which characterize
different statuses and different types of contract, in terms of

area of sawah cultivated. Since, as has been discussed, a con-
siderable proportion of sawah owners enter the tenancy mar-
ket, it is important to explore the extent to which the cultiva-
tion area otherwise available to landless tenant, were “occu-
pied” by farmer landowners.
Overall, the mean area of all sawah cultivated by owner
in-out tenants is the largest (0.65 ha) amongst all statuses
(Table 6.17., last column). Broken down into own sawah cul-
tivated is evenly distributed amongst various owner statuses,
with the mean area cultivated area by owner tenant-in being
the lowest (0.28 ha), and by pure owner operators being the
second lowest, just slightly higher (0.26 ha), supporting the
data presented above that pure owner operators were espe-
cially prominent in the tiny-farmers group (petani gurem).
These was a tendency, however, to enlarge their cultivation
by leasing-in others land, thus becoming owner tenant-in.
Besides this looking at the area of non owned sawah, it ap-

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