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Industrialisation in Indonesia: The Example of Batam Island

Author(s) -

Royle Stephen A.

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

singapore journal of tropical geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 1467-9493

pISSN - 0129-7619

DOI - 10.1111/1467-9493.00006

Subject(s) - industrialisation , indonesian , component (thermodynamics) , business , economic system , development economics , economic growth , economics , market economy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics

Indonesia is one of the most rapidly developing nations in the world. One important component of its transformation is an industrialisation policy which sees its people utilised by transnational corporations as sources of cheap labour for export goods processing. This has both positive and negative outcomes. This paper explores these issues in a review of Indonesian development strategy with particular reference to Batam Island in Riau Province.

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