Pare District

Pare (or Mojokuto) is a town and district in the Kediri regency (kabupaten) within the province of East Java, Indonesia. The district covers an area of 52.27 km² and had a population of 98,594 at the 2010 census^[1] and 106,007 at the 2020 census;^[2] the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 110,513.^[3]

The village of Tulungrejo in western Pare is popularly known for the local Pare English Village (Indonesian: Kampung Inggris Pare), which emerged after the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (as part of the Modjokuto project)^[4] conducted research there into religion in Java in relation to Indonesian politics after the legislative election and the election for the Constitutional Assembly of 1955.^[5][6]

See also

• Agricultural Involution