Resettlers face problems<\/p>\n
JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: Most transmigrants from within Irian
\nJaya are less successful than the more skilled resettlers from
\nareas outside of Irian Jaya, an official says.<\/p>\n
Antara quoted M.R. Rambu of the city administration as saying
\nyesterday that the Irianese resettlers had yet to reach a
\nstandard of living equal to the newcomers'.<\/p>\n
\"It's too bad that the transmigration program here has yet to
\ncreate a better life for the resettlers and the locals,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He also called on the transmigration authorities to help the
\nmore skillful newcomers from Java, Bali and East Nusa Tenggara to
\ncooperate with the locals, who hold more land.<\/p>\n
This year the government is to send more transmigrants than
\never before to sparsely populated Irian Jaya from overcrowded
\nJava, Bali and Madura.<\/p>\n
Irian will take most of this years transmigrants, around 9,000
\nfamilies, according to Minister of Transmigration Siswono
\nYudohusodo earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Last year his office moved 49,332 families, or 210,000 people,
\nto a number of areas in the archipelago.<\/p>\n
Irian Jaya's 421,981 square kilometers are populated by only
\ntwo million people with a density of four people per square
\nkilometer. Java, in comparison, has 115 million people cramped
\ninto an area of 132,186 square kilometers. The population density
\nis 870 per square kilometer. (swe)<\/p>",
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