Managing Population - Transmigration in Indonisia
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- Created by: Jenny Henry
- Created on: 07-06-13 13:05
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- Transmigration in Indonesia
- Policy
- Asking people to move from core to periphery
- Allowed to set up farming areas
- Free transport and free land given
- Food and fertiliser given for 1st year
- Trying to control the populotion with non-birth control methods
- Environmental Effects / Problems
- Flooding
- Rainforest clearance - 50 million hectures
- 10% of settlements have failed
- Infertile soils - need to grow rice
- High levels of herbicides and fertilisers needed
- Flooding
- Economic Effects / Problems
- Less people have chosen to migrate
- Population in Java has increased - more people migrating there, less people leaving
- Costs are high for the government to pay for resources and materials required by the people - especially those living in Java
- Rely on aid from the world bank
- Social Effects / Problems
- Productivity is low - need support
- Local tubes moved - conflict with local farmers and newcomers
- Facts
- 60% of population live on Java
- Pull factor - economic reasons
- Rural to urban migration
- Densely populated
- Urbanisation - growth of towns and cities
- Series of islands in South East Asia
- Policy
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