Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910
By James R. Rush.
Description
Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Java's Chinese elite, who were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage netw...
ISBN(s)
9793780495, 9789793780498
