Editing Transmigration program (section)

==Aims==
The stated purpose of the program, according to proponents in the Indonesian government and the [[economic development|development]] community, was to move millions of Indonesians from the densely populated inner islands of Java, Bali and Madura to the outer, less densely populated islands to achieve a more balanced [[population density]]. This would alleviate poverty by providing land and new opportunities to generate income for poor landless settlers. It would also benefit the nation as a whole by increasing the utilization of the natural resources of the less-populous islands. The program may have been intended to encourage the unification of the country through the creation of a single ''Indonesian'' [[national identity]] to augment or replace regional identities. The official position of the Indonesian government is that there is no separation of "indigenous people" and settlers in Indonesia, because Indonesia is a country "of indigenous people, run and governed by and for indigenous people". It argues instead for the use of "vulnerable population groups" which can include both tribal groups and the urban poor.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropoligical Perspectives|first1=Roy|last1=Ellen|first2=Peter|last2=Parkes|first3=Alan|last3=Bicker|publisher=[[Psychology Press]]|year=2000|pages=121–122}}</ref>