The takeoff and further development of the export sector, the of the economy, so to speak, actually surface layer of prevented the takeoff and modernization the domestic sector, or the base structure of the economy encompassing a large segment of the Javanese peasantry. Failing to achieve takeoff, the internal dynamic of sawah cultivation asserted itself unhindered, resulting in agricultural involution. This entire process is examined by Geertz who divides Javanese colonial history into three separate periods and equates them with three stages of development. These are(1) the period of the East India company from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, 2) the period of the Culture System(1830 70, and G) the period of the Corporate Plantation System(1870-1941). He concludes that it was during the second period that the dual economy pattern was firmly established and that, as a consequence, involution began, and that it was in the third period that, with the persistence of economic dualism, involu- tion attained its highest development[11, pp. 53, 69-70, 83-86].