Economic and Religious Attitudes of Entrepreneurs in a Village Industry: Notes on the Community of Batur

In the anthropological and sociological writings on Indonesia, there has been a general consensus assigning the responsibility for Islamic reform to the bourgeoisie, especially in the cities. W. F. Wertheim regards the two reformist Moslem organizations Sarekat Islam and Muhammadijah as displaying many bourgeois traits and in turn being supported by the bourgeoisie. Clifford Geertz also sees the religious ethics of a reformist movement in Modjokuto as conforming with the ethics required by the bourgeoisie.2 But in a broader perspective, the validity of this generalization has yet to be checked.