| Summary: | Two main things leading to the selection of Java to be the area
of investment by Dutch colonial were the presence of the labors and
the cheap land or in another words it was the lower production cost.
The prerequisites of the condition establishment were put in the
period of Cultuurstelsel i.e. when the political and economic
obstacles determined their form in the coordinating institution of the
natives� power use as mediation for the deployment. For the natives,
the presence of the financial capital began to be sensed when the
plantation industry was established. The industrial work pattern
emerged, which was a combination of agricultural employment of
export plants with manufacturing employment. The concrete form was
sugar factories.
The primary issue in this research was the operation of the
sugar Factory in Pekalongan. The issues mainly arose in how the
manner of the Gubernemen conditioned various social strata, from the
elite top to small farmers to get involved to support the planting
projects in ondernemings and the process of turning the sugarcanes
into sugar.
The sources used in this research were written sources, both
primary and secondary sources. The sources obtained from National
Archives of Republic of Indonesia, National Library of Republic of
Indonesia and the Public Library of Gadjah Mada University.
This research concludes that apparently what was predicted as
work mechanism could only work if there was a direct involvement of
the natives� elites �by using their influence� was not absolute in the
application. Indeed, until the first half of the 19th century, various
bond of servitude became the primary mean of labor recruitment
system. However, the development after the 1850s was apparently
highly contrast, by the emergence of what so-called �free labor�.
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