The author challenges the view that the failure to implement land reform in the past has hindered agricultural productivity. Providing some useful new data, he describes how the Green Revolution in the countryside introduced under the New Order has led to substantial and sustained increase in...

The returns of education in Indonesia are analysed using Susenas (household expenditure survey of 1981) data. The private sector is found to reward education more generously than the public sector, while the latter puts a premium on experience. A casual analysis suggests general sex...