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Ranah Studi Agraria

eyesight with a number of tables in ‘cinemascope’ form. For
those allergic to such tables we have tried to make the text as
intelligible as possible on its own account.
Finally, to avoid possible confusion, readers should note

that while we speak of nine ‘villages’ in the analysis which fol-
lows, our household-level data are in fact derived from surveys
of parts of villages, comprising one or more hamlets or ‘neigh-
borhoods’ numbering less than 200 households (1971) and less
than 150 households (1981), (as described in note I). ‘Villages’
in Java (i.e., the administrative units called desa or kelurahan)
number normally several hundred and often over a thousand
households; the following analysis describes patterns of change
and inequality at ‘neighborhood’ rather than at desa level.

B. General Description of the Nine Villages

The sample villages are evenly distributed between the
three provinces of Java and well dispersed within each pro-
vince, each in different kabupaten (districts) and at some
distance from each other (see Map 7.1). Five of them lie in
lowland plains close to sea level (among them, Wanarata is
close to the coast and about one-fifth of its household heads
are engaged in marine fishing); the remainder are in more
elevated and hilly regions (see Table 7.1) but still within the
range at which MV rice performs well. Columns 2-5 of Table
7.1 provide some information on the accessibility and the
crude and agrarian population densities of the villages. Al-
though all of the villages can be reached by motor vehicle,
three of them have no regular public transport service, not
lying on the routes of the small ‘Colt’ passenger vans or pickup

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