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shanty town 1.(城市)貧民窟。2.棚戶區。

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The minimum wage in most parts the country of 220 million is as low as around 40 a month . a tiny number of indonesians are among the richest people in asia while millions live in dire poverty in urban slums or shanty towns in the countryside 報道說,印尼目前的總人口為2 . 2億人,該國大部分地區的最低工資水平僅為每月40美元左右。數以百萬的印尼人在城市貧民窟或鄉下的破屋陋室中過著極度貧困的生活。

They worry that allowing peasants to sell their land could restore a rural landowning class , and that peasants would sell up in huge numbers and descend upon ill - prepared cities , throwing up shanty towns and pushing up crime 他們擔心允許農民出售他們的土地會恢復農村的地主階級,同時龐大數量的賣掉土地的人會涌向準備不足的城市,這會把他們扔進平民窟,把他們推向犯罪的境地。

In spite of the rapid influx of rural labour into the cities ( by official estimates an average of 8 . 4m people a year between 2001 and 2005 , bringing the total to around 120m ) , they have not spawned huge shanty towns 盡管農村勞動力迅速涌向城市(根據官方統計在2001 - 2005年間,平均每年有840萬人從農村來到城市,總數現已達1億2千萬左右) ,但他們沒有造成大規模棚戶區的出現。