Book Review: The Evolution of the Netherlands Indies Economy
| Published date | 01 September 1947 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204700200316 |
| Author | J. Polderman |
| Date | 01 September 1947 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
International
Journal
his lack
of
authority,
and
his
authority
rejected
or
shaken.
A
new
pattern
of
family
life
is
emerging which
promises
to
be
brighter
than
the
old.
Miss
Lang
shows
in
her
study
the
change
in
the
position
of
women,
rightly
giving
credit
to
their
better
education and
economic
indepen-
dence. She
indicates
also
the
tendency
of
young
people
of
both
sexes
to
assert the
right
to choose
their
own
mates,
to
conduct
their
own
lives,
and
to
participate
in
public
affairs.
Royal
Ontario
Museum,
Toronto.
C.
C.
Shih
THE EVOLUTION
OF
THE
NETHERLANDS
INDIES
ECON-
OMY.
By
J.
A.
Boeke.
1946.
(New
York:
I.P.R.,
Netherlands
Coun-
cil.
189
pp.
$2.00
paper)
Professor
J.
A.
Boeke
of
Leyden
University
drafted
parts
of
this
book
on
Indonesian
Economy
in
a
German concentration
camp.
His
subject
is
a
study
of
the
western
capitalistic
economy
which has
devel-
oped
against the
background
of
traditional agrarian
society
in
the
Indonesian
Islands.
In
this
region,
as
in
the
whole
Far
East,
two revo-
lutions are in
force,
one
nationalistic, striving
for independence,
the
other
social
and
economic,
accompanying
the
introduction
of
modern
economy
and
government into
a
primitive
society.
Boeke's
book
deals
with
the
different
aspects
of
the
latter
revolution
-in
the
period
between
the two
world wars.
He
shows
how
Western
enterprise
pushed
the
big
plantations
and
industries
of
Java
and
Sumatra,
and
how,
production
of
tropical
products
was
boosted
and
markets
opened
for
them.
Thus,
the primitive
economy
is
gradually
giving
way
to
big corporations
under
western
management.
Indonesia's
exports
have
become
of
importance
to
the
world,
which
in
turn
has
brought about
the
growth
of
prosperity
and
education
in
Indonesia.
He
draws
attention
to
a
grave
yet
fascinating
factor
in
the
evolving
Indonesian
economy-its
two-sided
character.
The old
and the new
exist
side
by
side
and
the
problems
which
arise
in
the
frontier
zone
are
many.
The
Indonesian
farmer
and
his community
have
had
to
be
protected
time and again
from
the
direct
results
of
the
importation
of
western
economy.
Here
Boeke
refers
to
the
"regulative
policy
in
really
great
style"
of the Netherlands
East
Indian
Government.
Included
in
this
analysis
by
Prof.
J.
A.
Boeke,
of
the Indonesian
social
and
economic
situation
between
the
years
1918
and
1939,
are
interesting
facts
and
statistics
regarding
the
exports
of
the Indies,
and
the
government
measures
taken
after
the
crisis
of
192.9.
Montreal,
March
1947.
J.
Polderman
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