MOLUCCAS: GENOCIDE ON THE SLY - Indonesia's Transmigration and Islamisation Program
Transmigration settlement at Kilolima Seram Island - Moluccas (photo: Dwi Satya Wicaksana)
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TRANSMIGRATION: ANNEXATION BY OCCUPATION
by Bernard Nietschmann Transmigration - the resettlement of people loyal to a central government - is the main tactic for "smokeless wars" of invasion and occupation by Third World states against Fourth World Nations and peoples. Java's war on the peoples it claims as Indonesian civilians is called transmigrasi (Transmigration). It represents the world's largest invasion force. The 1984 - 1989 Five Year Plan called for the movement of 5,000,000 people from Java, Madura and Bali specifically to those areas that resist Java's imposed sovereignty: Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Moluccas, East Timor, and West Papua. Over the next 20 years, some 65,000,000 more people will be moved to Javanize Fourth World territories claimed by Indonesia. Java no longer gives overpopulation as the principal reason behind transmigration. Centralized political and economic goals - not humanitarian ones - are the justifications. The Jakarta government lists seven goals for its transmigration program: To promote national unity, national security, an equal distribution of the population, national development, the preservation of nature, help to the farming classes, and improvement of the condition of local peoples. (Survival International, Bulletin: March 2, 1985) What transmigration has actually accomplished is very different: The spread of poverty, forced displacement of indigenous peoples from their homes, communities and lands; deforestation and soil damage at the rate of some 200,000 hectares per year (to total 3,600,000 deforested hectares by 1989); destruction of local governments, economies, means of sustainable resource use; forced assimilation programs; widespread use of military force to "pacify" areas and to break local resistance by bombing and massacres of civilians. "Indonesia ensures Islamisation of the Moluccas"
Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Newspaper) Published: October 16, 2008 22:50, last update: October 16, 2008 22:54 of our political editor JAKARTA - The Indonesian government makes sure that Muslims will be the majority on the Moluccan islands. This is what Moluccan human rights lawyers said yesterday to the Dutch parliamentary delegation of foreignaffairs. On the island group, which previously has a majority Christian population, the population is now 60 percent Muslim. "It is logical as the government encourages people to move from the densely populated sparsely populated Java to the Moluccas'' says ChristianUnion MP Joël Voordewind". But according to the lawyers, the government selects at the gate. Christian transmigrants are being denied access to the Moluccas. According to the lawyers, the authorities maintain a rigid birth-control policy in which christians are only permitted to have two children, while muslims are allowed to sometimes have nine children. Copyright 2008 Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Newspaper) Note MICHR: An official government delegation of the Dutch Parliament visit Indonesia from October 12 until October 19, 2008. Their planned visit to the Moluccas to obtain first hand information concerning the state of human rights on the Moluccan Islands and in particular of Moluccan political prisoners, numbering more than 90, was prohibited by the Dutch government. Who benefits? Friday, 01 April 2005
For example, one resettled Forest Tobelo community in eastern Halmahera has been placed under the jurisdiction of a nearby village of transmigrants. These transmigrants live on land taken from the Forest Tobelo in the 1980s. Decentralisation essentially gives them control over remaining Forest Tobelo land and allows them to sell off usage rights to others. It is unlikely that the Forest Tobelo will receive any of the resulting revenues. | SBURA Beberkan Penyerobotan Tanah Rakyat
Friday, 13 January 2012 Land Reform Protest Turns Into Violent Fracas in Ambon Too January 13, 2012 Lira Maluku desak Bupati Seram Bagian Barat perhatikan hak ulayat masyarakat adat Saturday, 07 January 2012 115 KK Transmigran dari Pulau Jawa Tempati Seram Utara Harian SIWALIMA Wednesday, 04 January 2012 Petugas Transmigrasi kabupaten umumnya tidak paham aturan Friday, 23 December 2011 Bupati SBT Dinilai Abaikan Hak Rakyat RABU, 22 November 2011 30 KK di Cianjur Siap Jadi Transmigran Minggu, 20 November 2011 | 03:00 WIB Merasa Dibohongi, 50 KK Transmigran Ancam Tinggalkan Maluku Utara Friday, 28 October 2011 Sahureka: Maluku Miskin Akibat Transmigrasi Friday, 29 July 2011 Tahun Ini, Maluku Dapat Jatah 320 KK Transmigrasi Wednesday, 27 July 2011 Kemenakertrans Targetkan 10 Ribu Transmigran Jum'at, 22 Juli 2011 Komponen Warga Seram Tolak Transmigran Monday, 27 June 2011 Pemprov Jatim Prioritaskan Korban Lapindo Jadi Transmigran Jumat, 14/01/2011 17:41 WIB Transmigrasi, Salah Satu Solusi Perbatasan NKRI Jumat, 4 September 2009 Bupati SBB Diminta Bayar Ganti Rugi Wednesday, 24 June 2009 10 Keluarga Transmigrasi ke Maluku 20 Desember 2008 Sebanyak 711 Keluarga Ditargetkan Ikuti Transmigrasi Selasa, 21 Oktober 2008 Tiga Lokasi Transmigrasi Siap Dibuka Radio Baku Bae 29-February-2008 Pemda Seram Bagian Timur Tolak Permintaan yang Berlebihan Calon Transmigran Asal Lapindo Jumat, 10 Agustus 2007 245 Calon Transmigran Minta Diberangkatkan Jumat, 23 Juli 2004 48 Ribu Nelayan Jawa akan Dipindah ke Pulau-Pulau Perbatasan Selasa, 20 Januari 2004 | 19:44 WIB |
Uprooting People, Destroying Cultures: Indonesia's Transmigration Program
A transmigration village guardpost, West Papua. The sign reads "Entering traffic and visitors must check with the guard."
by Carolyn Marr
Despite objections by human rights and environmental organizations, the Indonesian government and the international lending community defend and continue the controversial transmigration program which moves poor farming families from the crowded islands of Java, Bali and Madura to less densely populated islands of the archipelago. Human rights organizations charge that the program destroys indigenous communities, and environmentalists focus on its ecological devastation, including deforestation.
You can read the complete document by clicking this link > Indonesia: Devastating Development
by Carolyn Marr
Despite objections by human rights and environmental organizations, the Indonesian government and the international lending community defend and continue the controversial transmigration program which moves poor farming families from the crowded islands of Java, Bali and Madura to less densely populated islands of the archipelago. Human rights organizations charge that the program destroys indigenous communities, and environmentalists focus on its ecological devastation, including deforestation.
You can read the complete document by clicking this link > Indonesia: Devastating Development
