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Did Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?

The paper examines the effect of industrialization on
social capital in Indonesia during 1985 to 1997 using repeated cross- sections of nationally representative surveys. The empirical findings challenge existing results in the social capital literature, and may have implications for social instability in Indonesia since 1997.