Transmigration

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Created on: 23-05-17 14:30

What is transmigration?

When people migrate from one place to another in order to settle there

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Where is the transmigration case study?

Indonesia

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What is the aim?

To move mills of Indonesians from over populated places such as Java to sparsely populated places like Sumatra

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Why is this necessary?

It will alleviate poverty, reduce population pressure in Java, effective exploitation of outer islands

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What do people receive?

Housing, a farming plot, basic infrastructure, an allowance for 18 months

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What are the disadvantages?

Required huge donations from the World Bank and Bi-lateral aid, deforestation of the rainforest (outer islands contain 10% of the worlds rainforest), rights of local tribes ignored, forces assimilation of indigenous tribes

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Disadvantages continued

Soil fertility declined due to clearance, poverty was worsened due to poor and unplanned conditions, little effect on population pressure in Java

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