Java

Latitude: 
-7.49
Longitude: 
110.00
GeoNames ID: 
1 642 673

Policing the Forest: State Resource Control in Java Indonesia

In Java, Indonesia, the State Forestry Agency (SFA) controls valuable production forests and views local peasant farmers as a threat. As a result, the SFA has established a militaristic style of forest security that also functions as a form of social control on the island.

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"Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905–1914"

Controversy over the claim that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias…