A study of poverty and allocative efficiency in Sriharjo, rural Java, Indonesia

This study is about the phenomena of poverty and allocative efficiency in the village of Sriharjo in rural Java in 1972. An attempt has been made to describe and to explain these phenomena. The main characteristics of the village and the household s~mp]e can be stated as (i) too many people and (ii) not enough land. However , the village of Sriharjo is not the most densely populated village in the Kabupaten (District) Bantul in the Special Region of Yogyakarta . It was ranked 44 out of 73 villages in terms of popUlation density in the Kabupaten. In the analysis of poverty, an attempt was made to compare the data from Sriharjo and the data from SUSENAS (National Social Economic Survey) for rural Java analysed in other studies. It was found that the situation in Sriharjo was worse than the average calculated for rural Java from SUSENAS , in the sense that the percent