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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... reported that none of these people could be classified as in need . All lived either in their own homes or with other families and could still find other kinds of work at lower wages : at the start of the dry season in May and June work ...
... reported " appalling devasta- tion and desolation " ( ARA , vdPlas 2.21.226.130 , 22/8/46 ) . The west monsoon harvest was only 20 to 50 percent of normal , but villagers were evidently able to obtain other staples such as maize and cas ...
... reported in 1920 ( Cobban 1988 , 281 ) . Surabaya was more tardy . The resident of Surabaya from 1922 to 1924 reported at the end of his term that the kampungs in Surabaya were “ disor- ganised ” and that the heads “ no longer had any ...
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