Famine report in Arso denied

Famine report in Arso denied

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: A local transmigration official denies a
report of famine affecting the Arso resettlement area after the
two-year food supply expired.

Head of the provincial office of Ministry of Transmigration
Sudarmadi said here yesterday his office would therefore not
extend more supplies, as some resettlers have demanded.

Thirty-five people, representing 100 families who have
resettled in Arso, lodged a complaint with the local office of
the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation concerning the transmigration
office's failure to keep their promise of giving each resettler
family a 2-hectare plot of land, Antara reported

The farmers also said that they were suffering from food
shortages because the surrounding land has yet to yield crops.
(swe)