Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman (The Jakarta Post)
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Jakarta ● Sun, May 23, 2021Despite the emergence of new urban centers on other islands, the Indonesian population of over 270 million people remains concentrated on Java as other islands still fail to catch up with the development achieved on the country’s most populous island.
Java had roughly 151.6 million people, or around 56.1 percent of the population, as of September last year, according to Statistics Indonesia’s (BPS) latest population census. In contrast, the population of Kalimantan, which has an area four times larger than Java, accounted for 6.15 percent of the total population.
“Inequality in development is one of the factors behind the unequal population distribution,” BPS researcher Nashrul Wajdi told The Jakarta Post on Saturday. “Java remains a ‘magnet’ for migrants from outside the island.”
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2021-05-23 13:23:35Z
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