Transmigration site fails<\/p>\n
RANTAU, South Kalimantan: Hundreds of families in Tapin regency,
\nSouth Kalimantan, have left the transmigration site they were
\nallotted and headed back home after trying for years to cultivate
\nthe infertile land of Rawa Muning.<\/p>\n
Rawa Muning is a marshland in South Kalimantan that was turned
\ninto a transmigration site in 1994. Some 500 families from West
\nand Central Java, West Nusa Tenggara and Bali moved to Rawa
\nMuning under a government-backed transmigration program. Now,
\nonly a few dozens remain.<\/p>\n
Villagers said that the settlers had complained about the poor
\nirrigation system that made Rawa Muning unsuitable for farming.<\/p>\n
Fifty-year-old Dabil from Pandahan village said the land
\naround Rawa Muning had once been quite fertile, until the land
\nwas made into a transmigration site. He blamed the irrigation
\nsystem for causing the land's fertility to deteriorate.<\/p>\n
Over the years, families that had transmigrated decided to
\nreturn home, selling their houses for Rp 200,000 (US$23) to Rp
\n300,000 to locals.<\/p>\n
The transmigration program aims to distribute Indonesia's
\npopulation more evenly throughout the archipelago, relocating
\nfamilies from overcrowded islands like Java to regions where the
\npopulation is low. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nAcross-Mataram-deer-hunting
\nDeer poaching plagues Sumbawa
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Deer poaching plagues Sumbawa<\/p>\n
MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Illegal deer hunting on the West
\nNusa Tenggara island of Sumbawa has become worse, with venison
\nnow readily available at markets, said the provincial branch of
\nthe World Wide Fund (WWF).<\/p>\n
Nusa Tenggara WWF program manager Tri Agung Rooswiadji said on
\nTuesday that the deer, a protected animal, had become a prime
\ntarget for poachers.<\/p>\n
He did not say how the illegal hunting had affected the deer
\npopulation on Sumbawa, but warned they could face extinction.<\/p>\n
\"They (hunters) no longer use traditional weapons, but guns,\"
\nsaid Tri Agung, adding that the hunt for deer had grown from a
\nhobby into a lucrative business for poachers.<\/p>\n
Venison, he said, was easily found in markets in Sumbawa, and
\nvisitors bought the meat as a souvenir.<\/p>\n
Tri Agung also warned that protected birds on Sumbawa faced a
\nsimilar threat from hunters, who capture and sell them as pets.
\n-- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nAcross-SSulawesi-airline
\nTomy plans new airline for Kendari
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Tomy plans new airline for Kendari<\/p>\n
KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Controversial businessman Tomy
\nWinata plans to open a flight path to the Southeast Sulawesi
\nprovince, as he pushes ahead with his investment plans despite
\nprotests from local journalists.<\/p>\n
Tomy's Artha Graha Group (AGG) planned to launch Anoa Air
\nflying a Fokker F-50, said AGG consultant Mintarto Gunawan on
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
He said the airline would serve the Jakarta-Kendari route. AGG
\nhoped to capitalize on a surge of tourists and businessmen coming
\nto the province.<\/p>\n
\"AGG may get only a 50 percent share of the revenue, while the
\nrest will be split between the administration of the province and
\nthe regencies over which the airline will fly,\" Mintarto said
\nwithout disclosing AGG's investment in the airline.<\/p>\n
Tomy's investment plans in Kendari stirred protests among
\nseveral local journalists who had criticized his alleged
\ninvolvement in the attack in March against reporters of Tempo
\nmagazine in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
His supporters reportedly attacked the magazine in response to
\nwhat they said was Tempo's biased news reports about Tomy. --
\nAntara<\/p>\n
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\nAcross-Ejava-haven-trade
\nEast Java haven for trade in women
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East Java haven for trade in women<\/p>\n
TULUNG AGUNG, East Java: Women and children living in the regency
\nof Tulung Agung along the southern coast of East Java face a
\nhigher risk of falling prey to traffickers in the sex worker
\ntrade, as most migrant workers in that area are women.<\/p>\n
Although workers placement agencies abound in the regency,
\nmany of them only seek to exploit women and children as overseas
\nsex workers, said Umu Hilmy, the secretary of the Law and Gender
\nDevelopment Center at the University of Brawijaya.<\/p>\n
\"The government is still complacent in regards this problem,\"
\nshe said on Monday.<\/p>\n
East Java immigration officials, she said, recorded that six
\nto 20 East Java sex workers were deported monthly and returned to
\nIndonesia.<\/p>\n
Umu added that Indonesian women made up the biggest share of
\nsex workers in Japan. Quoting a survey by the United Nations
\nEcosoc, she said that \"out of 10,000 sex workers in Japan, 5,000
\nof them come from Indonesia.\" -- Antara<\/p>",
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