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The problem
of over population in Indonesia is made worse by the fact that fifty
percent
of all Indonesians are
below the age of eighteen years. Most of them are dependents. They do
not earn money to support
themselves and are in need of many facilities like food, medical care,
clothing, education, and
employment opportunities. Although a large number of them are forced
to drop out of school to
earn a living, the government. still has to spent a very large part of
its
revenue on education. Then
comes the problem of creating enough jobs for every new
generation of school
leavers or college graduates.
Although the problem of overcrowded cities is difficult to solve, there
is a solution to the
problem of
people living in overcrowded areas of the countryside. The solution is
internal
migration. This means
moving poor people from the countryside to different but underdeveloped
parts of Indonesia, where
they may work to build a new life themselves. In Indonesia, there are
large and active
resettlement programmes of his sort which have given a new life to
thousands
of people.
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