Transmigrants demand compensation

Transmigrants demand compensation

JAKARTA: Some 100 Javanese transmigrants rallied on Monday to
demand the government meet its promise to pay Rp 7.5 million in
compensation to each of the families.

The protesters represented 219 families who were forced to
flee their resettlement area in Setia Bakti district in Aceh last
January due to security concerns.

Sukijo, the coordinator of the rally, said Minister of
Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea had promised the
transmigrants help to return to their homes throughout Java, and
provide compensation funds.

The transmigrants, mostly coffee farmers, have been living at
the ministry-owned Transito Building in East Jakarta.

They vowed to stay at Jacob's office until he returns from a
working visit to Bali and East Nusa Tenggara. -- Antara