Governor Surjadi gets award

Governor Surjadi gets award

JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja was awarded the
Satyalencana Pembangunan (faith in development) award yesterday
for furthering the transmigration program.

Minister of Transmigration Siswono Yudohusodo, on behalf of
President Soeharto, pinned the insignia on him during a ceremony
at the City Hall yesterday.

Siswono said Surjadi successfully promoted the transmigration
program during his term in office. In just three years Jakarta
sent 19,547 people to transmigration areas outside Java, he said.

Records indicate that Jakarta has sent almost 81,000 people to
transmigration sites since the first five-year development plan
began in 1969.

According to the 1990 census Jakarta harbored 8.5 million
people, the minister said. "The number of people transmigrated is
too small compared to Jakarta's population. However, the people
have been very meaningful to the development of the
transmigration program," he said. (sur)