When Yoshihiro Tsubouchi of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and Nasruddin Iljas of the Faculty of Agriculture and A. Rasjid Hanafiah of L.P.P.M., Sriwijaya University, met at Palembang in April 1977, they discussed the possibility of a joint research project between the two institutions using an interdisciplinary approach to focus on agricultural land-use and populatio…