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Ranah Studi Agraria

ces of family income in each of the villages. It is intended pri-
marily to provide an overall picture of land and labor market
conditions in each of the villages. The analysis is therefore pri-
marily descriptive, seeking to identify dominant patterns and

inter village variations, rather than inter relationship between
variables. Moreover we have only been able at this stage to
analyze a limited range of key variables included in the re-cen-
sus study. Explanation of some of the patterns described here
will need to await further analysis.

Some Recent Issues in Research and Policy on
Rural Employment and Incomes in Java
As a background to the empirical analysis we will look
briefly at some current issues in discussions of changes in ru-
ral employment and incomes in Java. In the last few years
there has been a marked shift in opinion in government and
some academic circles in Indonesia concerning the major prob-
lems of employment and income generation faced by rural
people in Java. For the most part of the 1970s, spanning the
first two five year plans (PELITAs), increased rice production
was the overriding concern in rural development programs,

primarily through the introduction of new inputs–high yield-
ing variations, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation water–
through package programs, BIMAS, INPRES and the like, and
backed by public provision of credit subsidies and price con-
trols. Economic researchers, in addition to debating the econo-

partially edited data set. The data has been re-edited and al-
though there is some overlap with the previous report, almost
entirely rewritten.

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