Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000Ohio University Center for International Studies/Ohio University Press, 2002 - 541 halaman Surabaya is Indonesia's second largest city but is not well known to the outside world. Yet in 1900, Surabaya was a bigger city than Jakarta and one of the main commercial centers of Asia. Collapse of sugar exports during the 1930s depression, followed by the Japanese occupation, revolution, and independence, brought on a long period of stagnation and retreat from the international economy. Not until the export boom of the 1990s did Surabaya regain prominence as Southeast Asia's leading non-capital-city industrial area. |
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... Madura give a sense of shelter , re- minding that this is indeed a great natural harbor , the only one on the north coast of Java . The size of the port and the amount and range of its shipping , the naval base and dockyard , the bustle ...
... Madura . In East Java the main landing occurred on the beach at Pasir Putih ( just west of Panarukan ) and led to swift occupation of the whole of the Oosthoek , so swift in fact that most infrastructure and crops were left undamaged ...
... Madura . Beyond lies the Java Sea and the greater world of the archipelago . Surabaya was therefore the natural intersection of many streams of commerce : the river trade of the in- terior , the coastal trade of Java and Madura , the ...
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