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Ranah Studi Agraria

The reasons for the Ford Foundation’s turning to ADC
rather than ISS are not clear. ISS at the time represented a
relatively broad spectrum of theoretical and political views
on development issues, emphasizing interdisciplinarity and

with very few adherents of mainstream neo-classical
economics. The ADC was more homogeneous, and rather
heavily biased towards training in Agricultural Economics in
the neo-classical mode, though also recognizing and
supporting other disciplines such as rural sociology. The ADC’s
general ‘philosophy’ at the time is perhaps best encapsulated
in (ADC Executive Director) A.T. Mosher’s Getting Agricul-
ture Moving: Essentials for Development and Modernisation
(Mosher 1965) which was widely distributed free in Indonesia
and other Asian countries. This book, with its emphasis on
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the “five essentials” and the “five accelerators” of agricultural
modernization, reflects the shift away from politically diffi-
cult measures like land reform and the new focus on “green
revolution” productivity-enhancing innovations, in the frame-
work of then-dominant ‘modernization theory’ in rural develop-
ment discourse. Land reform is not mentioned in the book.
While it is often thought that discussion of land reform
and its implementation stopped abruptly with the change of

regime in 1966/67, it is interesting to note that the SAE was
still engaged in one study on “Evaluation of the Land Reform
on Java and Bali” in 1969/70 (Sajogyo 1970: 2). And when
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8 40 copies were donated to the SAE, 62 to IPB, 20 to other agricul-
ture faculties in Indonesia, and 10 to MIP (Leknas). (Correspon-
dence R. Allee to R. Borton, 1 September 1966. RAC, ADC IV 3 B 1.4).
9 I have not been able to locate any reports arising from this project.

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