Abstract
According to the population census of 1971 less than 5% of the Indonesian population was enumerated outside its province of birth. Therefore interregional migration might be considered a relatively unimportant phenomenon in a quantitative-demographic sense. This fact fits Zelinskys mobility transition theory which states a close relationship between the type and degree of phase agrarian frontier migration and rural-urban migration are predominant. Presently both types occur in Indonesia on a relatively modest scale and already have attracted growing attention. The less conspicuous interregional migration has only been studied at a macro-level since the nineteen sixties i.e. since new census and survey data became available. Most of these studies are of a quantitative-descriptive character and thus are weak from the analytical point of view. Recent migration theories however based on both the push-pull and the centre-periphery approach (Amin 1974) might offer an attractive analytical framework for these studies. The main reason to study interregional migration in Indonesia therefore is the assumption that this type of migration reflects the historically evolved social and economic inequalities between the various regions or provinces through regional differences in migration patterns. (excerpt)
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