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A transmigrant from Java washes off in the roadside ditch of SP 6 near Timika after a hot day of trying to make farm land out of lowland rainforest. Health standards in such remote outposts are low, and thousands die from malaria and dysentery each year. This camp was less than a year old and had been established by the Indonesian government to lure Javanese people from overcrowded villages to the wild frontiers of Irian Jaya. 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.

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Irian Jaya
A transmigrant from Java washes off in the roadside ditch of SP 6 near Timika after a hot day of trying to make farm land out of lowland rainforest. Health standards in such remote outposts are low, and thousands die from malaria and dysentery each year. This camp was less than a year old and had been established by the Indonesian government to lure Javanese people from overcrowded villages to the wild frontiers of Irian Jaya. 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.

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