People and Culture in Oceania
Online ISSN : 2433-2194
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Quality of Life in Majalengka, Indonesia: The Socioeconomic Status of Farmers and Environmental Conditions after Transmigration (transmigrasi)
Anton Setyo NugrohoMiho FujimuraTsukasa Inaoka
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2012 Volume 28 Pages 69-86

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More than 100 years ago the Indonesian government began a transmigration program (“transmigrasi” in the language of Indonesia) to move landless people from densely populated areas to sparsely populated areas of the country (called the “first migration”). Then, due to population increases and/or catastrophes in the latter areas, migrants moved back to the West Java province, but not to their original areas (called the “secondary migration”). The aims of the present study are to assess migrants’ socioeconomic status (SES), to compare perceptions of environmental conditions in the first and secondary migrations, and to assess migrants’ quality of life (QOL). A survey with a structured questionnaire was conducted in the village of Mekarjaya (a secondary migration area) in order to determine respondents’ socioeconomic status and perceptions of environmental conditions. The WHOQOL-BREF and a Focus Group Discussion supported the data. Research also included a comparative study of transmigrants and non-transmigrants: transmigrants exhibited lower average income, SES, perception of environmental conditions, and QOL than did non-transmigrants.
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© 2012 Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies
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