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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... tion was indeed by water . Surabaya , as much as Amsterdam or Venice , was once a water - based city that merged almost impercep- tibly into its hinterland , a characteristic shared with other great Southeast Asian cities ( see Reid ...
... tion of functions , so that over time a progressively smaller propor- tion of the workforce is associated with direct port functions . Why , therefore , should port functions be elevated to primacy above gov- ernment functions ...
... tion to Surabaya had a marked impact on what was still a small city but the number of immigrants was too few to alleviate population pressure in the hinterland . Moreover , the city could not generate enough productive jobs to absorb ...
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