By: Choirul Fuadi)*
CIDISS – One way of reducing overcrowding and equitable development is through the transmigration program. One of the transmigration’s destination areas is kalimantan.
For example, residents of the Sungai Perlu village, Seruyan Hilir district, Seruyan Regency, Central Kalimantan supports the village as transmigration’s destination area, as proposed by the local government.
“We appreciated the proposed plan by government of Seruyan which proposed Sungai Perlu village as the location of transmigration, since nowadays the citizens who inhabit the village is only seven head of the family left,” said village chief, Syamsudin.
The Government of the Sungai Perlu village will facilitate the transmigrant, is in the form of land residential and business area of 2,000 hectares. It is done; in order the plan of transmigration program can be real, then the population of the Sungai Perlu village will begin to be abandoned again.
“We greet this plan either, because if there is not a transmigration program then the population of the village is quite difficult to increase, and its economy is also difficult to developt,” he said.
Nevertheless, the Government of the village hopes the transmigration program can be realized in line with the potential of the area, i.e. fisheries sector. “The proposals of the citizens of the transmigrant, is with a skill or profession as a fisherman, “he said.
While, the government of Seruyan is proposing Sungai Perlu, as the destination location of transmigration. “We shall propose it to the Central Government through the Ministry of regional development, the Village left behind and Resettlement,” said Regent Seruyan, Sudarsono.
The Sungai Perlu village is located on the coast of Seruyan, is one isolated village that is very hard to reach through the access of road. One access often used to the village is only via the sea (water). The village actually has considerable potential, particularly marine fisheries.
“One of them through transmigration program, on the other hand, we from the Government also continues to strive gradually to build an access road so that Villages Need Rivers are no longer isolated,” he said.