4 - Land Redistribution and Rice Production in rural Yogyakarta at the beginning of the 20th century

The state carries out land redistribution, apart from aiming to improve inequality in the agrarian structure, poverty, development, and food security so that it becomes more equitable, and rice production increases in rural Yogyakarta. By using historical research methods, this study aims to examine the cause-and-effect processes involved in creating land redistribution and agricultural production.  The results of this paper found that land redistribution carried out in rural Yogyakarta as a tool to provide land for cultivators can increase rice production. Land redistribution is carried out by distributing land belonging to landowners who do not work on their land (absentees) to cultivators who do not own or have very narrow land. Cultivators and laborers are considered parties involved in managing rice production who are entitled to receive land redistribution. Implementing land redistribution has brought about significant changes in overcoming land issues and rice production as a whole. The aim of land redistribution by reducing the area of land ownership to reduce land ownership inequality during the colonial period succeeded in increasing rice production.

 
Keywords: Land Redistribution, Land Control, Rice Production

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Wasino

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