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After a critique of current analyses of development problems, which, the author believes, are not "sociological" enough, he illustrates this by analyzing the recent development history of the Riam Kanan valley in South Kalimantan. Following a brief description of the valley, its inhabitants, and the hydroelectric project that has become the dominant factor in its development planning, the two major agroecosystems (forest-based swidden agriculture and grassland-based permanent field farming) are discussed. Each system is found to be the object of both negative perceptions and proscriptive policies on the part of the local government. (DÜI-Sen)

Rural development, when it has been conceived of as a science at all, has generally been conceived of as a quantitative science. Numbers are used to establish the baseline of the population at issue, to plan changes in the population and to measure the impact of success of these changes. The authors argue that this confident quantification led to critical weaknesses in much of the past and present work in development. They propose an alternative research methodology supported by case material from a study of rural development in Central Java