The Surviving Migrant Villages
Monday, May 21, 2018
The New Order government developed a number of programs to build villages and regions outside the island of Java. Some programs have been maintained despite the changing regimes.
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Imam Tarjimi was only five years old when his family took him to move to Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan. Departing from Bojonegoro, East Java, they were part of the first batch joining the government's transmigration program in early 1970. "When we arrived here, forest and big trees were all around this area," said the 52-year-old man.
They opened peat forestland to build a settlement that became an embryo of the district of Rasau Jaya today. T
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