Taking Care of ‘Mini Indonesia’ in the Land of Hope

Kompas/Vina Oktavia

Nanik Birhaniah, 60, a migrant from Yogyakarta, holds up a photo of her family taken in the 1980s, in her house in Mulya Jaya village, Tulung Bawang Tengah district, West Tulung Bawang regency, Lampung, on Thursday (21/22). Lampung is a popular transmigration destination for people from Java and Bali.

Several decades ago, Lampung became a land of hope for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Java and Bali, not just for the economic growth of households, but also for the area’s diversity.

Nanik Birhaniah, 60, remembers the day she set foot in Lampung for the first time in 1974. At that time, the surroundings were still forests and bushes.