This publication was compiled in 1947 by the Central Bureau of Statistics in Jakarta, on the basis of food production data in Java for 1941-1946, which it dscovered in the buildings in Jakarta that had been occupied by the Office for General Research (Kantor Penyelidikan Umum) of the Japanese military adiministration in Java during 1942-1945 and of the Republic of Indonesia during 1945-1946.
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