Population policy in Indonesia: transmigration and spontaneous migration at the center of the debate
Pain, M.
Revue Belge de Geographie 119(1-2): 255-272
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-0796 PMID: 12292930 Document Number: 376512
"Indonesia has undertaken the most significant programme of agricultural settlement ever attempted in tropical regions from the colonial era. Since 1969, nearly 2 million families have been transferred out of Java, while spontaneous migrations were multiplying to an exceptional extent. The official programme was often critised and the uncontrolled settlers were accused of causing serious damage to the environment. Nevertheless one must recognise that those migrations, whether or not state-organised, have taken a key role in the development of the Indonesian countryside." (EXCERPT)