Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Indonesia-
Transmigration
- Effects
- Economic
- Cost a lot to
move everyone
- lack of jobs for migrants
- poor people lack jobs
and have no farming
skills which is the
main job provider in
rural areas
- average earnings were
higher in rural Java than
any resettlement island
- Environmental
- Rainforests destroyed
- "transmigration villages" built on land never previously affected by human activity
- natural resources used up
- soil in new land not as useful for growing crops as volcanic soils of Java
- Social
- fighting between migrants
- communal clashes between different ethnic groups
- quality of life of migrants not improved
- poverty and overpopulation
in Java not reduced
- fears from native populations of
"Javanization" and "Islamization",
strengthens separatist movements
- Policy
- People were to be moved from overcrowded, densely
populated Indonesian islands e.g. Java and Bali to sparsely
populated areas e.g. Sulawesi and Malaysia
- Initiative of Dutch
colonial government
- Later continued
by Indonesian
Government
- Future
- Policy has been quietly dropped
- Reasons
- overcrowding
- strain on resources
- in Java there are more than 600 people per sq km
- In Malaysia there are less than 10 people per sq km
- 3million people added to Java's population each year
- Squatter settlements in Java grow by 100,000+ people each year
- uneven population distribution