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... The first was to move millions of Indonesians from the densely populated inner islands of Java, Bali and Madura to the outer less densely populated islands. ...
One of the positives of Transmigration has been the demographic benefit. It has helped to relieve the pressure on land resources in Java to some extent. ... As Indonesias own forest resources decline it has turned its attention to West Papua. ... Second only to the Amazon, the island of New Guinea has one of the largest tracts of tropical rainforest left in the world. ... At that time the major focus of transmigration was President Suharto’s controversial one-million hectare peat land project in Central Kalimantan. ... The dried out peat and debris left from the bulldozers also created ideal conditions for fire. ... Transmigrant agriculture also suffered from low market prices for crops, high prices for agricultural inputs and poor transportation to markets. ... It obliged them to change their ways of life and submit to re-education programs to wean them from what the government thought were ‘backward’ ways. ... For example, in Arso and other places in the vicinity of Jayapura, the local people received no compensation for any of the land, which they have been obliged to relinquish. ... The Transmigration program has in total cost more than US$7 billion (Fearnside, 1998, p 559). ... " The official view is that the transmigration program is beneficial to the native inhabitants because it enables them to learn from the Javanese. It has been argued that the program must be hurried along as a means of transferring agricultural knowledge while integrating the indigenous people into the mainstream of the nation.
Approximate Word count = 1222
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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