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During the 10-year period thousands of hectares of land were opened to sawah (wetland) and ladang (dry land) farming, irrigation networks and cattle breeding, and dozens of intermarriages consummated between the tapol and the local women.
Suddenly, it was all over. The tapol were returned to Java. In their place came the transmigration settlers from Java. Last month Tempo’s Amarzan Loebis and Akmal Nasery Basral visited Buru and filed this report.
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