By Milan J. Titus & Paul P. M. Burgers
The vast majority of literature at the fiscal hindrance in Indonesia has fascinated with the detrimental macroeconomic impression in the course of the “crisis years” of 1997–99. The case stories offered during this quantity tackle a unique standpoint, studying a number of responses to the difficulty between groups and families from assorted parts of Indonesia, and masking the coping and adapting mechanisms of rural families particularly, lower than a number of resource-use practices and regulations.** [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]
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The Banjarese are farmers, factory workers, and owners of many small shops and restaurants. The Kutai, the original population, can be found in agriculture, business, and higher ranks of government personnel. The Chinese are in the majority in the retail and supply sector, own most of the larger shops in town as well as many sawmills, and they dominate the capital-intensive branches of the economy. Most Dayak people of East Kalimantan are found in the faraway forests of the upper Mahakam, and in the Berau and Nunukan districts.
The cases presented here served as sample villages within my research in the northern and southern parts of Tana Toraja. The field research on which this paper is based was part of the Indonesia in Transition research program of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). The names of the villages in this study are pseudonyms. There are various spellings for the name of the people from Tana Toraja. The more common ones are Toraja, Toradja, and Toraya. According to Torajan linguistics at the Christian University of Tana Toraja (IKIP), within the English language the term Torajan should be used to refer to someone who originates from the Tana Toraja region.
However, the majority of Kurre’s population have rain-fed rice fields, yielding only one crop of rice per year. Notwithstanding the unequal distribution of rice fields, both in quantity and quality, 73 percent of the village’s households are directly involved in rice growing; this is far more than in Sabara (44%). The majority has indirect access to the rice fields, which takes the form of labor during the plowing, planting, or harvesting season, which in turn brings them a small share of the harvest.