Transmigration program
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 Javanese contract workers in plantation in Sumatra during colonial period, cirica 1925. |
The transmigration program (Plantilla:Lang-id) was an initiative of the Dutch colonial government, and later continued by Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country. This involved moving people permanently from the island of Java, but also to a lesser extent from Bali and Madura, to less densely populated areas including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. The stated purpose of this program was to reduce the considerable poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to better utilize the natural resources of the outer islands. The program, however, has been controversial as fears from native populations of "Javanization" and "Islamization" have strengthened separatist movements and communal violence.
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- Related: Demographics of Indonesia
| "Indonesia's transmigration programme: an update "Indonesia's transmigration programme: an update dte.gn.apc.org/ctrans.htm - Web |
| Transmigration Settlement by Regency in Papua 2000... Transmigration Settlement by Regency in Papua 2000–2003 irja.bps.go.id/.../Tabel%203.2.1.htm - Web |
| Golden promises Golden promises www.newint.org/issue305/control.html - Web |
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