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Landownership Tenancy, and ...

In Village III (Gemarang) the story is more or less the
same as in the case of Village I, but the changes (in the Gini
indices as well as in the difference in the top-bottom gap) are
relatively smaller. This is simply because of the smaller num-

ber of bengkok holders covered and also the smaller hectarage
of bengkok included, compared to Village I. Village VI and
Village VII are rather different. In these villages, bengkok hold-
ers have some sawah of their own so that when bengkok is
excluded, the proportion of landless households remains the
same. And since most of bengkok holdings are relatively large
in size, their exclusion in these two villages leads to a consid-
erable drop in the Gini indices both for all households and for
among owners, and at the same time the top-bottom gaps nar-
rowed significantly.
Indeed, it would be interesting to examine changes in the
distribution of sawah ownership during the last six to seven
years. However, we have not yet been able to make compari-
sons between the present data and data from the baseline
study. In fact, full census rather than partial census is consi-
dered as being more appropriate for such a comparison, par-
ticularly concerning land ownership distribution. Viewing that
even among hamlets within one village there is a considerable

variation, a larger coverage of villages would be needed for
such a comparison.

cent of total sawah area owned, whereas the top 10 percent of
total owners controlled almost 50 percent of total sawah owned.
If bengkok lands are excluded, the corresponding figures are 10.9
percent and 36 percent, a considerable change.

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