4,000 families to be resettled

4,000 families to be resettled

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: More than 4,000 families from Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara will be resettled in this province during the 1995/96 fiscal year.

Head of the provincial transmigration office, Nadjamuddin, said the settlers would be employed in agricultural projects aimed at reducing the province's dependence on other provinces for rice.

According to Nadjamuddin, the transmigrants would be resettled in the regencies of Pasir, Bulungan, Kutai and Berau, and thousands of hectares of forested land in those regions will be converted into farms and plantations. Up to now, over 56,750 families from Java, West Nusa Tenggara and Bali have been resettled in the province, Antara reported. rms)