Managing the agricultural transformation on Java

At the heart of the economic and social development of Indonesia lies the country's transformation from a traditional agricultural society to a modern agricultural-industrial economy. In the many aspects of this transformation, a prominent source of data and insights has been the investigation of a research organisation, Indonesia's Survey Agro Ekonomi. After a brief history of this organisation, its contribution is evaluated from the perspective of the knowledge needed to expedite Indonesia's agricultural transformation. (DÜI-Sen)