Transmigrants get jobs

Wed, 13 Jul 1994, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

SEMARANG, Central Java: Some 75 families from Central Java
finally got jobs at a logging company in Central Halmahera,
Maluku.

Sunyoto, chief of the Central Java transmigration office said
yesterday that the new settlers have begun working for PT Barito
Pacific Timber which controls 35,000 hectares of forests in
Halmahera.

He said that the transmigrants will be paid Rp 6,700 daily for
planting the trees.

Sunyoto said that family members were also allowed to work in
the concession area, filling the seed bags with soil for Rp 8 per
bag. (har/par)

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