DIY Local Government Denies Information Plans To Send 6,000 Transmigrants To IKN

Maket IKN Nusantara In East Kalimantan/DOK Ministry Of PUPR

YOGYAKARTA - The Manpower and Transmigration Office (Disnakertrans) of the Special Region of Yogyakarta denied the information circulating regarding the plan to send 6,000 transmigrants from this province to the State Capital (IKN) of the Archipelago in East Kalimantan (Kaltim).

Head Of Protection For Manpower Placement And Expansion Of Job Opportunities And Transmigration Of DIY Manpowertrans Disnakertrans Elly Supriyanti

explained that 6,823 people referred to were the accumulation of DIY transmigration program participants from 2008 to 2022.

"That's actually what has been placed for the last 15 years and not just in Kalimantan," said Elly as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 2.

According to Elly, the central government has a discourse to develop food security through a transmigration program in the IKN buffer zone.

"So the discourse is in the IKN buffer zone, not in the IKN," he said.

If the discourse is finally realized by the central government, according to him, the DIY Regional Government is ready to support by preparing human resources for transmigrant candidates according to the determined auction in order to reduce the unemployment and poverty rate.

The DIY Manpower and Transmigration Office has also prepared a budget to support the readiness of new transmigrant candidates to various regions.

"Regarding the allocation of the placement of DIY, how many families (head of families) can it be the central policy," he said.

Elly said, in 2023 DIY only received a transmigration allocation of 20 families (KK) with the most placements in Central Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi Province and none in the IKN buffer zone.

"In 2022 we will receive an allocation of 51 families and now it will be 20 families," he said.

The number of regular transmigration allocations for DIY, said Elly, experienced a downward trend every year even though based on the animo data that registered in districts/cities this year, 311 families have been recorded.

"So far, most of them have registered from Bantul, Gunungkidul, and Sleman Regencies," he said.

Elly said that DIY has participated in the Transmigration Program for more than five decades with quite diverse placement areas in the Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi regions.

He considered the experience and adequate skills in agriculture to be one of the capitals of the DIY people to be successful as transmigrants.

In addition to agriculture, according to Elly, each transmigrant candidate is also equipped with competence in the fields of plantations, entrepreneurship, and other skills, including the ability to adapt to fellow transmigrants, the new environment, and natives in the destination area.

"They must be able to adapt to the new environment, with new habits and customs, and be tolerant," he said.