Rice And Food Self-Sufficiency in Indonesia
Rice And Food Self-Sufficiency in Indonesia
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印度尼西亚的大米和食品自给自足
DOI:
10.1080/00074918412331334642
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发表时间:
1984
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
L. Mears
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作者:
L. Mears
Self-sufficiency has been a major policy concern in Indonesia for several centuries, although not until 1945 was this conceived in terms of food or rice self-sufficiency, In colonial times, the drive to self-sufficiency entailed the control of crops grown by indigenous cultivators in order to generate government or expatriate revenue through export of cash crops (Partadiredja 1982). Furnivall, in his extensive studies of the Netherlands East Indies, places no emphasis on-and makes very little mention of-food and rice production and the steps taken to increase them (Furnivall 1944; Furnivall 1948). During the 1930s, the Dutch made some attempt to regulate rice prices, and indirectly rice production, but the term self-sufficiency was not used. It was argued that rice was too important a commodity to he left entirely to the free market with the result that state intervention in the marketplace occurred by means of trade barriers, floor and ceiling prices and the use of cheap imports (Boeke 1953). However, implementation of these measures appears to have been spotty (Moeljono and Tirtosudino1971, pp. 3, 26 & 35).It was only after independence that the term self-sufficiency began to be used in the sense of a vaguely specified equation linking domestic demand with supply of food. Given the political importance of the rice price, its use as a proxy for a general index of commodity prices, and the key position of rice as a wage good and staple in the average diet, the term self-sufficiency came to mean specifically rice self-sufficiency (Timmer 1975, p. 31ff; Timmer