THE PROBLEM OF MALARIA AND ITS ERADICATION IN THE EXTREME SALIENT OF JAVA DURING THE DUTCH COLONIAL ERA

The extreme salient of Java has often been described as ‘malarious land’ and ‘unheathy region’. Although it had a great consequences on the people’s conditions of health and socio-economy, the problem of malaria has rarely been well-understood and fairly-treated in the existing historical studies. This paper is expected to fill in the existing gap in our knowledge on the issues. By using the available historical sources, the paper seeks to elaborate the problem of malaria and its eradication efforts in the extreme salient of Java during the Dutch colonial era. The major objectives of the paper... Mehr ...