Editing Transmigration program (section)

=== Economic ===
In many examples, the program failed in its objective to improve the situation of the migrants. The [[soil]] and [[climate]] of their new locations were generally not nearly as productive as the volcanic soil of Java and Bali. The settlers were often landless people lacking in farming skills, let alone skills appropriate to the new land, thus compromising their own chances of success.<ref>{{cite news  | last =Max Sijabat  | first =Ridwan  | title =Unemployment still blighting the Indonesian landscape  | publisher =[[The Jakarta Post]]  | date =23 March 2007  | url =http://www.thejakartapost.com/review/nat05.asp  | url-status =dead  | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070501081947/http://www.thejakartapost.com/review/nat05.asp  | archive-date =1 May 2007  }}</ref>