Traditional and Feodal Agricultural Ecology: Land System in the Islamic Kingdom of Mataram

Abstract

This article discusses apanage land belonging to village heads, which is a legacy of the land system in the era of pre-colonial Surakarta and Yogyakarta kingdoms or what is termed as as Vorstenlanden. As the aim was to find out how the feudal and nobility system in Java, which in the colonial era was very vulnerable to intervention and politics of splitting or fighting. To answer this question, a study will be conducted on the history of the Islamic Mataram kingdom until the era of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, en focusing on analysis of the apanage and nobility systems. The method used is a historical method which consists of four steps, namely, heuristics (activities to search for and collect historical sources), textual criticism (testing and assessing the authenticity of historical sources both in form and content), interpretation (interpreting historical facts obtained through text criticism) and historiography, namely presenting research results in the form of articles.