Abstract
In 1990, the Indonesian government began a trial to obtain workers for the industrial forest plantations in East Kalimantan by moving people in the overpopulated Jawa island to the underpopulated East Kalimantan. The objectives of this research were to study how people accepted this transmigration trial and whether we could predict their acceptability of the transmigration in advance. We used questionnaires in this study. We classified their acceptability into four levels based on the degrees of their satisfaction of work and transmigration. The canonical discriminant analysis was used to analyze the data. As a result, the canonical variates form 1st to 3rd were significant at a 5% level. The first canonical variate showed the degrees of satisfaction with work, and the second canonical variate showed the degrees of satisfaction with the transmigration. The discriminant ratio was 64.6%. Studying the data before transmigration in a similar manner, we obtained a discriminant ratio of 60.8% and the four levels of acceptability were grouped into four quadrants. Based on this study, we believe that there is a possible way to predict people's acceptability of a transmigration.
