King Helü of Wu
Banned
Many countries has become densely populated in one region but sparsely populated in another due to natural causes, for instance, Siberia is sparsely populated due to its temperature, western China due to low precipitation, Inland Australia due to the deserts.
Not the case for Indonesia. Despite having similar temperature and precipitation in the entire country, places like Java, Madura, Bali and Riau islands has been dominated by intensive farming and ancient empires, while in Papua, Kalimantan and Maluku it's largely jungles and shifting cultivation.
Your challenge, should you take it, is to make rest of the country developing agrarian civilisations able to support higher population density, not necessarily to the degree of Java, but close to that.
This would definitely be a disaster as long as bio-diversity is concerned, but not necessarily so for cultural-diversity, as this "civilization" can be formed with local cultures responding to challenges posted by agrarian empires like Java and Bali. Another way is an early transmigrasi of overpopulated islands to less populated ones.
Not the case for Indonesia. Despite having similar temperature and precipitation in the entire country, places like Java, Madura, Bali and Riau islands has been dominated by intensive farming and ancient empires, while in Papua, Kalimantan and Maluku it's largely jungles and shifting cultivation.
Your challenge, should you take it, is to make rest of the country developing agrarian civilisations able to support higher population density, not necessarily to the degree of Java, but close to that.
This would definitely be a disaster as long as bio-diversity is concerned, but not necessarily so for cultural-diversity, as this "civilization" can be formed with local cultures responding to challenges posted by agrarian empires like Java and Bali. Another way is an early transmigrasi of overpopulated islands to less populated ones.