Transmigration participants down

Transmigration participants down

DENPASAR, Bali: Local interest in participating in the state- sponsored transmigration program has subsided after residents found a major spring and successful reforestation program.

"Nusa Penida sub-district residents transmigrating to other provinces have subsided because of successful development programs," Bali's governor Ida Bagus Oka said during his two-day visit to the region.

Klungkung regent Ida Bagus Oka (same name) said that his office targeted to resettle 250 families in the fiscal 1994-1995, 140 of those have been moved as of January, he said.

He said that three families were moved to East Timor, 162 families to South Sumatra, 20 families to Sulawesi, and 15 families to Bengkulu. The residents were from the regencies of Banjarangkan, Klungkung, and Nusa Penida.(imn)