Java set to remain population center<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Java, despite intensive transmigration programs,
\nwill remain the country's most populated island with 58 percent
\nof the population by 2004, according to a new report.<\/p>\n
Population density of the island, which makes up just 6.6
\npercent of Indonesian territory, will rise from 938 per square
\nkilometer to 1,000. The rest of the country has a population
\ndensity of about 50 people per square kilometer.<\/p>\n
A report on population growth by the Central Bureau of
\nStatistics, presented here yesterday to President Soeharto by
\nCoordinating Minister for People's Welfare and Poverty
\nEradication Haryono Suyono, said 81 percent of the population
\nwould reside in the western part of Indonesia -- Sumatra, Java
\nand Bali -- comprising less than 32 percent of the country's land
\nmass.<\/p>\n
The report was made as a projection of population growth
\nduring the Seventh Five-Year Development Program (Pelita VII)
\nwhich runs from 1999 to 2004.<\/p>\n
The report said the population was expected to increase by
\nover 23 million to reach 225.7 million by 2005, with West, East
\nand Central Java continuing to be the most populated provinces.
\nThe population currently stands at about 202.1 million.<\/p>\n
The most populated provinces are located in the western part
\nof Indonesia: West Java with 46.9 million, East Java 37.1
\nmillion, Central Java 33.1 million, North Sumatra 13.1 million
\nand Jakarta 10.3 million. In the 1990 population census, Java's
\npopulation, including Yogyakarta, was 107.7 million.<\/p>\n
The least populated areas by 2005 are predicted to be East
\nTimor with one million residents, Bengkulu 1.8 million, and
\nSoutheast Sulawesi and Central Kalimantan with two million each.<\/p>\n
Population growth is expected to decrease from 1.5 percent
\nannually in the 1995\/2000 period to 1.25 in the first five years
\nof the new century.<\/p>\n
Based on age, the report said Indonesia still had a \"young
\npopulation\", due mainly to the high fertility rate in past years.
\nBut the age makeup will move upward slightly as the young
\ngeneration ages.<\/p>\n
Those included in the productive age bracket, between 15 and
\n59 years, will increase during Pelita VII, from 124.8 million to
\n138.3 million, an increase of about 2.7 million annually and of
\nwhich men will comprise 1.4 million.<\/p>\n
Despite dire economic hardships faced by Indonesians today,
\nlife expectancy is predicted to increase from 64.7 years to 67.9.<\/p>\n
Males, while increasing their life expectancy from 62.8 to
\n65.9, can still expect to be outlived by women, who will boost
\ntheir life expectancy from 66.7 to nearly 70. (prb)<\/p>",
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