REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Minister in charge of rural affairs, backward areas and transmigration Marwan Jafar said transmigration is one of the main program to cope with swelling population.
"Demographic bonus could bring about disaster unless it is properly controlled with good planning," Marwan said here on Saturday.
He said the transmigration program which has been long out of the spot light would be revived.
"Transmigration is important in Indonesia as the country has high rate of population explosion, he said.
The program of transmigration has proven to have considerable contribution to economic growth in various scarcely populated areas, he said, citing transmigration has succeeded in bringing modernity to Papua.
The minister asked regional administrations to facilitate transmigration.
Transmigration was first made a government program under the administration of President Suharto opening new settlements for people mainly farmers from overcrowded Java in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua.
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