U.S.-Indonesia Cooperative Research: Employment Decisions, Mobility, and Enterprise Development in Indonesian Transmigration.

该提案要求提供资金，允许托马斯R。Leinbach 和约翰·F.沃特金斯大学地理系 肯塔基州，与Fachrurrozie Sjarkowi博士一起进行研究， Mr. M.巴克尔·阿里，农业学院，大学 Sriwijaya（UNSRI），帕伦邦，印度尼西亚，为期24 个月，一项关于就业的合作研究计划， 印度尼西亚的决策、流动性和企业发展 轮回 轮回计划，一个重要的 印度尼西亚发展规划的一部分，旨在改善 生活水平和就业机会 把没有土地的农民从人口稠密的 爪哇和巴厘岛到人口相对稀少的苏门答腊岛。 中央 本研究的目的是从经验上得出一个 一系列概括轮回类型的模型 农户非农就业行为 活动 这些模型将进行对比和测试 与一系列的理论模型相对照。 研究的主要数据将从家庭收集。 在十个样本中进行访谈和几个案例研究 南苏门答腊省的移民村庄。 两 受资助及自愿来港定居的家庭将接受研究。 印度尼西亚的轮回计划是一种尝试， 将人口从人口稠密地区重新分配到 人口相对稀少的地区。 该计划使 缓解人口压力，改善经济 定居者的福祉，并提供发展规划 不发达的外岛。 的测试 广义描述和预测模型将有助于 对农村地区就业行为的理解， 短期流动性在这些战略中的作用。 的 合作者是在该领域备受尊敬的科学家， 这项研究。 本项目将使他们能够将联合收割机 他们的才能和兴趣是为了互惠互利。 这个项目是 与科学促进发展目标相关的问题 国家方案，旨在提高 美国科学家和工程师及其 发展中国家的对应方， 科学信息、思想、技能和技术， 通过在互利问题上的合作。

This proposal requests funds to permit Drs. Thomas R. Leinbach and John F. Watkins, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, to pursue with Dr. Fachrurrozie Sjarkowi and Mr. M. Bakir Ali, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sriwijaya (UNSRI), Palembang, Indonesia, for a period of 24 months, a program of cooperative research on employment decisions, mobility, and enterprise development in Indonesian transmigration. The transmigration program, an important element of Indonesian development planning, seeks to improve the living standards and employment opportunities for previously landless agriculturists by moving them from densely populated Java and Bali to relatively underpopulated Sumatra. The central objective of this research will be to derive empirically a series of models which generalize types of transmigration household employment behavior with respect to off farm activities. These models will be contrasted with and tested against a series of hypotheses which form a theoretical model. Primary data for the research will be gathered from household interviews and several case studies in a sample of ten transmigration villages of South Sumatra province. Both sponsored and voluntary settlement households will be studied. The Indonesian transmigration program is an attempt to redistribute the population from densely populated areas to relatively underpopulated ones. This program benefits the nation by relieving population pressures, improving the economic well-being of the settlers, and providing development planning of the underdeveloped out islands. The testing of the generalized descriptive and predictive models will contribute to the understanding of employment behavior in rural settings and the role of short term mobility in these strategies. The collaborators are highly respected scientists in the field of this research. The present project will allow them to combine their talents and interests for mutual benefit. This project is relevant to the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in developing countries through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit.