Observing Shifts in Migration Patterns

The downward trend in births and deaths will cause migration to become a major factor of demographic change in Indonesia. Demographic changes need to be responded to with appropriate adjustments in development planning.

Kompas' main coverage for two consecutive days (4/5/2023-5/5/2023) has focused on the interesting topic of migration. It revealed that in the last 10 years there has been a shift in the pattern of “recent migration”, in that major cities are no longer a migration destination, but buffer cities.

In demography, migration is the movement of people from one place to another across administrative boundaries with an aim to settle down. Migration, together with birth and death rates, affect the size, structure and distribution of the population of a region. In its coverage, Kompas discusses recent migration, which deems an individual to be a recent migrant if their place of residence is different from the previous five years in a population survey.