Irian Jaya
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Laid out like row crops, cabins colonize a plot freshly cut from the rain forest. This settlement, designated SP 6, is the new home of hundreds of formerly landless peasants, volunteers in the national transmigration program. To ease crowding on the islands of Java and Bali, the government offers five acres, a year’s worth of rice, and a one-way air ticket to anyone who will move to an undeveloped region.

Irian Jaya (West Papua) is the western half of the island of New Guinea, and the most eastern province of Indonesia.

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Laid out like row crops, cabins colonize a plot freshly cut from the rain forest. This settlement, designated SP 6, is the new home of hundreds of formerly landless peasants, volunteers in the national transmigration program. To ease crowding on the islands of Java and Bali, the government offers five acres, a year’s worth of rice, and a one-way air ticket to anyone who will move to an undeveloped region. <br /> <br /> Irian Jaya (West Papua) is the western half of the island of New Guinea, and the most eastern province of Indonesia.

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