Editing Transmigration program (section)

===Environmental===
Transmigration has also been blamed for accelerating the [[Deforestation in Indonesia|deforestation of sensitive rainforest areas]], as formerly sparsely-populated areas experienced considerable increases in population. Migrants were often moved to entirely new "transmigration villages", constructed in regions that had been relatively unimpacted by human activity. By settling on this land, [[natural resources]] were used up, and the lands became [[overgrazed]], resulting in deforestation.