Over & Underpopulation and Indonesia Transmigration

Question 1

Define overpopulation

Answer 1

When a country/region does not have enough resources to keep its people at a reasonable standard of living

Question 2

Define underpopulation

Answer 2

When a country/region has more resources available than are being used by the people living there

Question 3

Facts and Figures

Answer 3

• Consists of 17 000 islands

- 9000 islands are inhabited

Question 4

Problems

Answer 4

• Uneven distribution
• Some are overpopulated
• Some are underpopulated

Question 5

Effects

Answer 5

• Resources are being over-exploited in one place but opposite in others

Question 6

Aims

Answer 6

• To reduce poverty and overpopulation in Java
• Provide opportunities for poor hard working people
• Provide a workforce to make a better use of natural resources of the underpopulated islands

Question 7

The scheme includes:

Answer 7

• Offering homeless people jobs and land => enables people to move from Bali, Java and Madura to Sulawesi, Jaya, Kalamatan
• Build infrastructure: schools and hospitals, farmlands with food supply and farming tools

Question 8

Problems with the scheme

Answer 8

• Islands contain 10% of world’s rainforests = where endangered animals and indigenous people live => biodiversity and culture decreases/loses
• In Madura, 100 were killed by the indigenous
• Costs $7000 to move each family