A Preprimary Study on the Development Path of Southeast Asia : The Case of the 19^<th> Century West Java

本文认为，19世纪20年代的国际环境是爪哇强制耕作制度形成的必要条件，并被纳入国际贸易体系，强迫耕作制度也是绕过银币作为国际货币结算手段的一种手段。在这种制度下，殖民地政府脱离了银本位制，务实地引入了有管理的货币制度。此外，在生产过程、交通基础设施等领域，使用纸币和铜币进行了巨大的公共投资。这些发现需要更新以往研究中所写的强制耕作制度的特征。

This research argues that the international environment in the 1820s was an essential condition of the formation of the forced Cultivation System in Java, which was incorporated into the international trade system.The forced Cultivation System was also a device to bypass silver coins as a means for international monetary settlement. Under the system, the colonial government departed from the silver standard coinage and pragmatically introduced a managed currency system. In addition, there was a huge public investment with paper money and copper coins in the fields of production process, the infrastructures of transportations.These findings require renewing the characteristics of the "forced" Cultivation System written in the previous studies.