Mass Migration Needed
(N.Z.P.A.- Reuter—Copyright) DJAKARTA, December 29. Indonesia will need to move about 5000 Javanese a day to other islands to spread the country’s population evenly, President Sukarno said in Djakarta last night.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of Indonesia’s national transmigration conference. To make the mass move Indonesia would need about 20 ships of 3000 tons each to carry the people continuously from Java. President Sukarno said the figures indicated the tremendous size of Indonesia’s interisland immigration question which had to be settled on a national scale. Inter-island immigration had become a matter of life and death for the country, he said. Indonesia’s population had
now reached 104 million million to 1,500,00 a year, people and increased by The problem was how to 2,500,000 a year, he said. move 1,500,000 people each On Java alone the increase year from Java to the less in population was about one populated islands.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30636, 30 December 1964, Page 9
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