Abstract
In 1964, faced with the fundamental problem of population growth that was substantially more rapid than the growth of food production, and moved for reasons of nationalism to strive for self-sufficiency, Indonesia gambled on a home-grown solution: the BIMAS program.' In the short space of three years, a small-scale pilot project was transformed into a unitedfront assault on traditional patterns of rice production in virtually every rice-growing district in the nation. Although the success of the program to date has not been extraordinary, it is worth examining both as a type of approach to the basic problem of agricultural transformation, and as an example of Indonesia's capacity to undertake programs of national development.
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