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

该提案要求提供资金，以允许肯塔基大学地理系Thomas R.Leinbach博士和John F.Watkins博士与印度尼西亚巴伦邦Sriwijaya大学(UNSRI)农业学院Fachrurrozie Sjarkowi博士和M.Bakir Ali先生进行为期24个月的研究，关于印尼移民就业决策、流动性和企业发展的合作研究计划。移民计划是印尼发展规划的重要组成部分，旨在通过将之前没有土地的农场主从人口稠密的爪哇和巴厘岛转移到人口相对稀少的苏门答腊岛，来提高他们的生活水平和就业机会。这项研究的中心目标将是经验性地推导出一系列模型，这些模型概括了相对于非农业活动的移民家庭就业行为的类型。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。这项研究的主要数据将从家庭访谈和南苏门答腊省十个移民村庄的几个案例研究中收集。将对赞助和自愿定居家庭进行研究。印尼移民计划是试图将人口从人口稠密的地区重新分配到人口相对较少的地区。这项计划通过缓解人口压力，改善定居者的经济福祉，并为欠发达的外岛提供发展规划，使国家受益。对广义描述性和预测性模型的测试将有助于理解农村地区的就业行为以及短期流动在这些战略中的作用。合作者是这一研究领域备受尊敬的科学家。本项目将使他们能够将自己的才华和兴趣结合起来，实现互利共赢。该项目与发展中国家科学计划的目标相关，该计划旨在通过交流科学信息、思想、技能和技术，以及通过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.