Settlers refuse to be resettled

Settlers refuse to be resettled

JAKARTA: A group of Javanese settlers, moved to Lampung under the government's transmigration program, visited the National Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday complaining that they were being harassed by the local authorities to move once again.

Twelve people representing about 30,000 residents of the Jabung subdistrict in Central Lampung, said they had been asked to join the government's transmigration program once again but had not been provided with any explanation for the request.

Kasumharjo, a spokesman for the delegates, said they were quite content in the place where they are now, living off the crops that they painstakingly tend.

"I thought the transmigration program was intended for people who have no means of subsistence," he said. (imn)