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Migrations from villages were not a very rare thing in Java. Even the sikep [land-holding villagers] had trouble retaining a large number of numpang [dependent workers], since they could easily apply for opening land. There was under Mataram [Kingdom], after all, a relative shortage of labor.-Ong Hok Ham, 1975, emphasis added This has always been a place of people coming and going.
Biochemistry of Plants and Animals. An Introduction| Biochemistry of Plants and Animals. An Introduction, M. Frank Mallette, Paul M. Althouse, Carl O. Clagett, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York (1960), 552 pp