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Indonesia is an agricultural nation. 4 out of 5 Indonesians work the soil. The desa is the entire productive community of a small village. In the western sense, the desa is an authoritarian undemocratic system. It can be likened to a sort of oriental kibbutz. Wooden houses are loosely scattered around vegetable plots and fruit trees- papaya, mango, quava, coconut, kapok and various palms with narrow pathways winding in every direction. Sometimes there is a community meeting place, barns, and fishponds. The desa is often surrounded by dry or wet ricefields, hedges, bamboo groves, with forests beyond. People work hard all day, then return home to pray, sing, dance, smoke kretek, gossip, watch wayang, sleep, rising at 4 am again to labor in the fields. Controlling everything in the desa is a council of elected villagers. The headman is called the kepala desa. An ancient cooperative system (gotong royong) manages the parceling out of land, community seed beds, the growing of crops, and the irrigation and storage of rice. There are mainly two systems of cultivation used in Indonessia, /adang and sawah.sawah.

 

  



 

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