La mutation de l'agriculture indonésienne.

The Changing of Indonesian Agriculture. Cited as an example for other developing countries, Indonesian food crop agriculture has made tremendous progress during the last 15 years. This success is mainly due to the take-off of rice production, which has more than doubled between 1970 and 1985. After having long been the world's first rice-importer, Indonesia has reached a stage of self-sufficiency and could soon start exporting part of its surplus. The reasons for this are many; they have to do with the favorable conditions of the physical and human environment as well as with the policy measures taken by the government. However, agricultural modernization has many socioeconomic consequences and seems to lead to relative différenciation in the rural areas of the archipelago. Having overcome most of its age-old food problems, Indonesia is now confronted with new difficulties quite similar to those faced by industrialized countries with surplus agriculture. Is this not proof that this sector of the Indonesian economy is taken up in the development spiral?Citée en exemple aux autres pays en développement, l'agriculture vivrière indonésienne a connu en quinze ans une véritable mutation. Ce succès est surtout dû au décollage de la production rizicole qui a plus que doublé entre 1970 et 1985. Les causes de cette rapide transformation sont multiples et tiennent autant aux conditions favorables du milieu qu 'à la politique gouvernementale. Ayant surmonté la plupart de ses anciens problèmes alimentaires, l'Indonésie se retrouve aujourd'hui confrontée à des difficultés nouvelles assez semblables à celles des agricultures excédentaires des pays industrialisés. Cela ne constitue-t-il pas la preuve que l'économie vivrière indonésienne est désormais largement engagée dans la spirale du développement ?Maurer Jean-Luc. La mutation de l'agriculture indonésienne.. In: Études rurales, n°99-100, 1985. Economies des vivres, vies de l'économie., sous la direction de Jean-François Baré . pp. 87-113