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Migrants and Political Instability in Indonesia

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Aug 13, 2011
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As Indonesia grows richer and its citizens acquire increasing mobility, domestic migration between the country’s five major islands and 30 smaller island clusters, which feature as many as1,000 distinct ethnic groups, is causing rising political tension and driving concerns about environmental degradation.

Transmigration has been an Indonesian story for …

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