Publications

The following highly controversial book, recently published in Australia, seemed to require two reviews. The Editor is grateful to Professors Feith and Papanek for accepting his invitation to prepare contrasting assessments.

Rex Mortimer (ed.), Showcase State: The Illusion of Indonesia's ‘Accelerated Modernisation’. Angus and Robertson, 1973, pp. 164.

D. H. Penny and M. Singarimbun, Population and Poverty in Rural Java: Some Economic Arithmetic from Sriharjo, Cornell International Agricultural Development Mimeograph 41, Ithaca, New York: Department of Agricultural Economics, May 1973, pp. 115. Single copies are available without charge from the publisher; additional copies are US$0.25 each. (A summary of an earlier draft was published under the title, “A Case Study of Rural Poverty”, BIES, March 1972.)

A. B. Neil, Indonesia in Transition. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974. Recommended price $A4.15. Pp. 19.