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

该提案要求资金允许博士。肯塔基大学地理系Thomas R. Leinbach和John F. Watkins与印度尼西亚巨港市斯里维贾亚大学（UNSRI）农业学院Fachrurrozie Sjarkowi博士和M. Bakir Ali先生合作开展一项为期24个月的合作研究项目，内容涉及就业决策、流动性、以及企业在印尼移民中的发展。移民计划是印度尼西亚发展规划的一个重要组成部分，旨在通过将以前无地农民从人口稠密的爪哇和巴厘岛迁移到人口相对稀少的苏门答腊岛，改善他们的生活水平和就业机会。这项研究的中心目标将是从经验上推导出一系列模型，这些模型概括了有关非农活动的各种迁移家庭就业行为。这些模型将与形成理论模型的一系列假设进行对比和检验。本研究的主要数据将从南苏门答腊省10个移民村的家庭访谈和几个案例研究中收集。将对赞助和自愿定居家庭进行研究。印尼的人口迁移计划是试图将人口从人口稠密地区重新分配到人口相对较少的地区。这个项目通过缓解人口压力、改善定居者的经济福利、为欠发达的外岛提供发展规划，使国家受益。对广义描述和预测模型的检验将有助于理解农村环境中的就业行为以及短期流动性在这些战略中的作用。合作者是本研究领域备受尊敬的科学家。目前的项目将使他们能够结合他们的才能和兴趣，互惠互利。该项目与“发展中国家科学项目”的目标相关，该项目旨在通过科学信息、思想、技能和技术的交流以及在互利问题上的合作，提高美国科学家和工程师与发展中国家同行之间的合作水平。

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.