Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hans Antlöv and Sven Cederroth
  • The development and demise of the traditional Javanese aristocracy / Sartono Kartodirjo
  • Traditional leadership in rural Java / Ina Slamet-Velsink
  • The ideology of Javanese-Indonesian leadership / Niels Mulder
  • Village leaders and the new order / Hans Antlöv
  • Pamong Desa or Raja Desa? : wealth, status and power of village officials / Jean-Luc Maurer
  • Village elections in Central Java : state control or local democracy? / Frans Hüsken
  • New order modernization and Islam village officials and religious teachers / Sven Cederroth
  • Can the Javanese do business? : the awakening of indigenous capitalists in Indonesia / François Raillon