Transmigration

Question 1

what is it?

Answer 1

scheme created by Indonesian government to ease overpopulation in the capital Java by moving people from the core area to the under populated areas (periphery)

Question 2

what did the government do?

Answer 2

provided land, money and fertiliser for those who move for 18 months in order to allow them to sustain a small farm

Question 3

problems: rainforest

Answer 3

Indonesia’s outer island contain 10% of worlds remaining rainforest were destroyed by transmigrants

Question 4

Problems: resettlement was political

Answer 4

remove indigenous people from outer islands e.g. Diak forest dwellers

Question 5

problems: cost

Answer 5

$7,000 per family and was an economic disaster, worsening Indonesia’s national debt

Question 6

problems: little effect

Answer 6

poverty was worsened due to poor farming conditions, no access to markets and poor site preperation