"Later, the transmigration pattern should be undertaken more professionally by prioritizing skills and all of that is because it is what the time and condition demand," PDTT Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar said in a statement released on Thursday.
During the commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Indonesian Transmigrant Children Association (PATRI) at the new capital Nusantara's ground zero, he observed that a more modern transmigration breakthrough is important to support development in Indonesia.
Currently, his ministry is preparing a better transmigration development concept by equipping transmigrants with modern equipment.
"Transmigration departure will be complemented with hand tractor, rice milling unit. Now, that is the transmigration that we expect in the future," the minister remarked.
Under the transmigration program, in the future, there will no longer be transmigrants who depart with outdated equipment such as hoes and sickles, he informed.
During Thursday’s event, the minister said that PATRI is serving as the first line of defense against the spread of radicalism.
The association should truly become an advocacy institution for transmigrants and transmigration regions, he added.
During the occasion, the ministry bestowed numerous awards to transmigration actors, such as regional heads and cultural figures participating in fields such as education, entrepreneurship, and religion.
There were also women transmigrant figures, transmigrant children, transmigrant assistants, transmigrant local community figures, residents who gave up their land for the transmigration program, and village chiefs who scripted transmigration success.
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