Page 286 - Ranah Studi Agraria: Penguasaan Tanah dan Hubungan Agraris

Landownership Tenancy, and ...

vated holdings will be also discussed here especially as they
relate to tenancy status). Thirdly, sawah is preferable simply
because all villages observed in this study are located in ma-
jor rice producing areas.

As expected, the overall distribution of sawah owned in
all villages (the total number of Households in eight villages
being 1615) is very skewed, the Gini index being 0.69 (See
Table 6.4.). More than 36 percent of all households were land-
less and slightly more than 49 percent belonged to a class of
tiny farm owners (petani-gurem, owning below 0.5 ha) and
controlling only around 36 percent of total sawah owned area,
with a mean of ownership 0.195 ha. At the other extreme, a
very small number of households (6 percent) belonged to a
class of one hectare and above controlled 42 percent of the
total sawah owned area.
The overall distribution of sawah ownership for all eight
villages is, thus, more skewed than that for all Java, the Gini
index among owners for the latter being 0.49 in 1973 (Ann
Booth, 1983).

Table 6.4. Overall Distribution of Sawah Owned, Re-census, 1983
Distribution of Households
Distribution
Area of Sawah Owned (HH) Mean Area of sawah area
(Ha) All HH (%) Landowners (Ha)
(%)
(%)
1. Landless 36.3 - - -
2. <0.125 15.1 23.7 0.070 4.0
3. 0.125 - <0.250 18.5 29.0 0.175 12.3
4. 0.250 - <0.375 11.8 18.5 0.314 14.1
5. 0.375 - <0.500 3.8 6.0 0.418 6.1
6. 0.500 - <0.750 6.6 10.4 0.594 14.9
7. 0.750 - <1.000 2.0 3.1 0.866 6.5
8. 1.000 - <1.500 2.0 4.6 1.195 13.2
9. 1.500 - <2.000 0.8 1.3 1.648 5.0
10. 2.000 - <5.000 2.0 3.1 2.514 18.9
11. 5.000+ 0.2 0.3 7.050 5.0
All Households 100 (1615) x 0.264 100
217