THE CHANGES IN SOCIAL CLASS STRUCTURE OF INDONESIA FROM 1816 TO 1942

Abstract

Under the impact of colonialism, from an independent feudal country, Indonesia became a colony whose politics as well as society depended entirely on the colonialists. The administration of the native people was completely disabled; activities in all of the fields were dominated by the colonial government. One of the most obvious social changes in Indonesia is the social class structure. That means together with the transformation of the old classes (farmers and landowners), there was the emergence of new classes (modern workers, bourgeois petty bourgeois and feudal land holders).