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Pare (or Mojokuto) is a town and district in the Kediri
regency In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...
() within the province of
East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...
,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
. The district covers an area of 49.69 km2 and had a population of 98,594 at the 2010 census and 106,007 at the 2020 census. The village of Tulungrejo in western Pare is popularly known for the local Pare English Village (), which emerged after the American anthropologist
Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades&n ...
(as part of the ''Modjokuto project'') conducted research there into religion in Java in relation to Indonesian politics after the
legislative election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ...
and the election for the Constitutional Assembly of 1955.English Village Information Website
info kampung inggris
'. The website provides information about the English village, located in Pare, Kediri, Indonesia.


See also

* ''
Agricultural Involution ''Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia'' is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. Its principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produc ...
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Districts of East Java Kediri Regency {{EJava-geo-stub