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Yani Taufik

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• Research Article
  Shifting from Head-Hunting to Cash Crops: The Journey of People in Routa, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
  Author(s): Yani Taufik* Yani Taufik*
  
  This paper discusses the way that this frontier area has developed through initiative and hard work. Routa is a sub-district (kecamatan) located on the frontier between three provinces (South, Southeast and Central Sulawesi). This remote area in the interior of central Sulawesi had been popular as a place of head-hunting before the Dutch reached Central Sulawesi. The changing conditions in Routa have been brought about by both outside influences and those within brought about by cocoa and current pepper boom. There are both population and landscape changes in Routa due to development initiated by its own residents and a steady trickle of migrants encouraged by the pepper boom. To date, people have been able to accommodate their increasing needs because of the abundance of natural forest areas which can be converted to arable land. But land is a finite resource. Already there.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2332-0915.1000188

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