Transforming the Indonesian Uplands (book review)

Title : Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Author ; Tania Murray Li
Published ; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. 1999
Size; Soft cover, 300+ pages, large format.

Comment.
Ten chapters, each a different community showing varying sociological aspects, reflecting and analyzing the inland people of Kalimantan, Sulawesi and other islands. The upland communities are independent and guard freedom as the foundation of their society. This is very different to coastal communities that end up in bondage through being tied to the mono crop of rice – that the Government ensures remains cheap. Government bodies are constantly trying to bring such free enterprise communities back under their control, and thus change their character to be dependent upon the government.
An amazingly researched and well put together book.