More families to be resettled

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)