Palm | Kelapa Sawit

Division of labour, social differentiation and inequality can be seen briefly from what Karl Marx said as class analysis. Each social class is determined by what they have which is called by neo Marxism as economic determinism. By Marx, simply each society can be divided to proletariat class having merely “their hands to work” and bourgeois class having production tools and benefiting from proletariat class working.

The Inequality related to the classes can be described from the result of production process. What the bourgeois class gets from the production process is profit of the production which is not only bigger, but also oppressed the other class, while working class or proletariat just reaches wage or salary regulated by bourgeois. This old concept describing class relation is still exist in many developing countries i.e. situation in many big oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

The oil palm plantation built by Dutch Government colonial in the age of eighties in Indonesia (Hindia Netherland) dropped labour from the crowded island, Java, to several islands called transmigration project. They became workers in many plantations called by term of Marx as proletariat; receiving wage every month, they had no access to be the owner of land and the plantation and or to the real profits of the plantation as the owner had. It is happen to every generation of them where I was seeing and familiar with.

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