Bima (Sumbawa)
Bima is a city on the east coast of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia 's Nusa Tenggara Barat Province . In 2005 the city ( Kota ) had an estimated population of 123,064 inhabitants, the surrounding administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Bima 407,636 inhabitants.
history
Bima was the capital of the Sultanate of Bima , which had fallen away from the ancient Hindu kingdom on the east coast of the island of Sumbawa after Islamization in the early 17th century.
In 1792 the Sultan Abdu'l Hamid Muhammad Shah signed a treaty with the Dutch East India Company that made Bima a protectorate of the Dutch.
structure
Bima is divided into five Kecamatan (districts) (as of 2012):
- Raba
- West Rasanae
- East Rasanae
- Mpunda
- Asakota
transport
About ten kilometers southwest of the city is Bima Airport ( IATA airport code BMU), from which the former Indonesian airline Merpati Nusantara Airlines flew to Denpasar on Bali and to Surabaya on Java.
literature
- Henri Chambert-Loir, Rosemary Robson: State, City, Commerce: The Case of Bima. In: Indonesia , No. 57, (Archipel) April 1993, pp. 71-88
- Michael Hitchcock: Inter-Ethnic Relations and Tourism in Bima, Sumbawa. In: Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 10, No. October 2, 1995, pp. 233-258
- J. Noorduyn: Bima en Sumbawa: Bijdragen tot de divorced van de sultanen Bima en Sumbawa by A. Ligtvoet en GP Rouffaer . Foris Publications, Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1987
- J. Noorduyn: Makasar and the Islamization of Bima . Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- and Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië. Uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, part 143, pp. 312-342. ( Online )
Web links
- Bima Kota (Indonesian)
Coordinates: 8 ° 32 ' S , 118 ° 41' E