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Agrarian and Nonagrarian Bases
of Inequality in Nine Javanese Villages
Benjamin White and Gunawan Wiradi

A. Introduction
Between 1968 and 1973 Indonesia’s Agro Economic Survey
carried out regular surveys of fixed samples of farm households
in twenty selected villages in the main rice-producing regions of
Java. Summarizing the results of the first three seasons of these
surveys (1968/69-1969/70), Sajogyo and Collier commented:

“Although sample farmers have responded as well as local situa-
tions and incentives permitted in adopting the new high-yielding
varieties, there is no picture yet of any ‘green revolution’ by Java’s
paddy farm operators” (Sajogyo and Collier 1972:43).
In 1981 the Agro Economic Survey research team had
the opportunity to revisit nine of these twenty sample vil-

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