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Transmigration in Indonesia is perceived as an important approach to improve welfare; however, this policy has also been a subject of criticism. Along with the enactment of the Regional Autonomy Law, the transmigration policy changed from centralized to decentralize. That is, the regional government has a large role in making decisions on the implementation of transmigration. The national transmigration program was rejected in several transmigration destinations in Indonesia. Nevertheless, transmigration is still recognized as one of the programs that can improve people's living standards and one of the ways to develop the region. This paper discusses the role of transmigration in the development process in East Kalimantan Province and various issues related to interactions between local communities and transmigration communities as migrants. The sources of data and information in this paper are reviews of various research reports, journal articles, books, and other supporting documents.

The objective of this study was to describe the factors influencing health security of rural families. It was a quantitative study. Data was collected through questionnaires and distributed to households within the Nong Bua Lam Phu Province during July - August 2009 covering 339 samples and was analyzed by LISREL. This paper shows that three factor components which influence health security of rural families consist of: Group 1 the factors within family such as (1) family association, (2) health potential in family and (3) kinship associations; Group 2 the factors within community including (1) organizations within community, (2) association of family with community, (3) natural resources within community and (4) the community health system; andGroup 3 the external community factors consisting of (1) the government health system, (2) promotion for health access by local administration and (3) health promotion through health networks. The findings show that the factors which influence health security of rural families are as a follows: firstly, the factors within the community (λ=0.86), secondly, the external community factors (λ =-0.71) and finally the factors within the family (λ=0.66). These factors are called the "Social Capital" and have shown the power to predict health security of rural families at 57.0% (R2 = 0.57). We recommend that strategic health policies should be concerned with çSocial Capitalé increase.

International labour migration is one of the major issues of our time. Records at present total around 200 million people working outside their country of birth. This rapidly increasing phenomenon is examined in a large number of studies on migration, most of which, however, focus on experiences and practicalities of migrants at the place of destination. In this study, we provide insight into another issue of migration study by presenting occupational prestige as an indicator of social mobility of Thai labour brokers who were return migrants from overseas employment. The data was collected via structured interview with 321 samples obtained by systematic sampling from all provinces in the Northeast of Thailand during the years 2010-2011. Data analysis for social mobility was performed based on occupational prestige. The results indicated that occupational prestige of labour brokers (0.1934) was higher than their former occupational prestige for agricultural occupations (-0.3100) and industrial/service occupations (0.1800). Moreover, social mobility of labour brokers could be classified in the upper vertical mobility category of the "Occupational Mobility."