More families to be resettled

JAKARTA: The Ministry of Transmigration will soon move 1,200 transmigrant families from the densely populated Java, Madura, Bali, East and West Nusa Tenggara provinces to the one-million hectare peat development project site in Central Kalimantan, a senior official said.

"Their dispatch will be started in the next three or four months," Soekamto said.

The sending of resettlers is a part of the plan to develop the Central Kalimantan peat land into a self sufficient food producing center.

In the 1996/1997 fiscal year, around 3,000 transmigrant families will be moved to Central Kalimantan. Of the number, 1,800 families are inhabitants of local provinces, while the rest are resettlers from Java, Bali, Madura and East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara. (swe)