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Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910
Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms." These monopoly franchise
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Paperback, 296 pages
Published
January 31st 2007
by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
(first published 1990)
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Membaca versi berbahasa Indonesianya. Luar biasa riset yang dilakukan Rush, dan seperti tertarik ke masa lalu, melihat gambaran detil tentang bisnis candu yang menguasai seluruh sendi kehidupan di Jawa. Tidak berbeda jauh dari sekarang kondisinya, di mana sulit membedakan penjahat dan penegak hukum. Negara ikut bermain membodohi rakyatnya, hanya saja caranya berbeda.
Satu hal yang saya pelajari dari sejarah candu di buku ini, bahwa kebijakan pemerintah tidak memberi pengaruh signifikan dalam peru ...more
Satu hal yang saya pelajari dari sejarah candu di buku ini, bahwa kebijakan pemerintah tidak memberi pengaruh signifikan dalam peru ...more
Read the Indonesian version and was awed by the depth of the research that Rush did. Academic literature with this level of detail is almost non existent in Indonesia and I personally give this book much praise. Anyone who would like to understand colonial drug history this is the book for you.
jika seseorang sudah bergantung pada anda, mereka akan melakukan apapun untuk anda.
dan bagaimana jika hal itu adalah candu?
kontroversi di balik kerja paksa masa belanda?
dan bagaimana jika hal itu adalah candu?
kontroversi di balik kerja paksa masa belanda?
For this one, I actually read the Indonesian translation version, with a slightly more controversial title than the original. It was published by Mata Bangsa, Yogyakarta.
Oct 05, 2012
Fandy Hutari
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Punya yang terbitan Mata Bangsa, bukan Kobam :)
Pernah baca. Lupa isinya.
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