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The decentralisation process in Indonesia and its impact on the agricultural sector / by Tobias Axelsson
The thesis “Peasants and policymakers : agricultural transformation in Java under Suharto” shows that Indonesia commenced a transformation process but did not see it through, resulting in an economy more investment-driven than agriculturally-led. Inspired by the East Asian model, the thesis focuses on three core areas within the agricultural transformation process. Firstly, yields and labour productivity whereby it is shown that the principal source of productivity growth was through land augmenting policies.
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Magnus Jirström
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University.