Author : Sofyan Jamal

Summary : Data for this study were taken from the heads of all households in Kampung Paoe, Desa (village) Ompo in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Purposive sampling and total enumeration procedures were employed in choosing the KAMPUNG, the village, and the respondents. The study attempted to: 1) present the general characteristics of a typical rice village in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia; 2) describe changes in land tenure system (tenure mobility, occupational mobility, land transactions, operational landholdings, tenure contract, and labor arrangements) and population in the selected study village; 3) relate population changes to land tenure system changes; and 4) estimate distribution of land among households in the study village. The total area of Ompo village is 4,400 hectares with a population of 10,971 as of 1986. Rice farming is the most source of income in this village. Agricultural production is typically by rice monoculture. The total rice field area is 1,886.07 hectares or 42.86 percent of the village area. Respondents had an average age of 46.62 years with an average schooling of 3.99 years, which was relatively low. Also, most respondents had more than three family members. The average family size was 4.16 persons. Population change in Ompo village from 1971 to 1986 was greater than the subdistrict and district levels. The population increase was accompanied by an increase in operational landholdings, specially rice fields, uplands, and homelots. Land transactions showed the increase in ricefields, uplands, and homelots. Renting, sharecropping, and mortgaging increased. Occupational mobility and tenure mobility showed an increase in number of landlords/landowners, owner-sharetenants, share-leaseholders, and plain leaseholder. On the other hand, there was a decreased in owner-operators, owner-leaseholders, owner-sharelease-holders, and landless workers. From 1971 to 1986, there was an increase in verbal and unlimited tenure contract, while the other forms of tenure contract decreased.