Abstract
This study details the developmental path observed in two villages over the last decade. In essence, it is a test of developmental theory in action expressed in terms of village responses to internal constraints and external inputs over time. During the last decade in East Java, there has been a major change in attitude towards development. The villagers are now physically moving in a wider and less territorial world. The initial successes of the green revolution have been followed by many local personal innovations. The villagers’ traditional fear of change has been replaced by an active search for social and technological innovations. This study identifies examples of past and present changes. The t wo villages and 30 villagers described were selected as representative of rich and poor villages in Malang Kabupaten in East Java. In the initial study, after examining 20 villages, we declded to study those same ones Bennett (1957) had selected as representative of landuse types. The two extreme types detailed here are richer and poorer, respectively, than the average Javanese village.
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