Jayapura

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Jayapura
Jayapura (Moluccan Papua)
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Coordinates 2 ° 33 ′  S , 140 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 2 ° 33 ′  S , 140 ° 42 ′  E
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Indonesia

Geographical unit

Western New Guinea
province Papua
ISO 3166-2 ID-PA
height 8 m
surface 935.9 km²
Residents 256,705 (2010)
density 274.3  Ew. / km²
founding 1910
View of Jayapura / Port Numbay
View of Jayapura / Port Numbay

Jayapura is an Indonesian city ​​in New Guinea ; it is the capital of the Papua Province and the Western New Guinea Region , the Indonesian part of the island.

geography

The city of Jayapura is located on the northern Pacific coast on Yos Sudarso Bay (formerly Humboldt Bay) near the border with Papua New Guinea (here Sandaun Province , Vanimo-Green River District). The urban area extends in its sparsely populated district of Muara Tami over its entire width of more than 20 kilometers to the international border that runs exactly on the 141st Meridian East. In the west, the Heram district extends to the banks of the Sentani (lake) , which is already part of the Jayapura administrative district ( Kabupaten ). In the south lies the government district of Keerom, in the north the Pacific Ocean .

It is an administrative and commercial center, the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jayapura , has a port and an airport and has been the seat of a university since 1962, the Cenderawasih (" Bird of Paradise ") University. Of the more than 200,000 inhabitants, immigrants from other parts of Indonesia make up around 80% of the population, the Papuans make up a minority of around 20%.

City structure

The city of Jayapura is divided into five districts ( kecamatan ), which are listed in the table below:

District ( kecamatan ) Area
km²		 Population
Census
2010		 Most densely
kerungs-
tight
Muara Tami 626.7 11,137 17.8
Abepura 155.7 73.157 469.9
Heram 63.2 40,435 639.8
Jayapura Selatan (South J.) 43.3 66,937 1545.9
Jayapura Utara (North J.) 51.0 65,039 1275.3
Jayapura 939.9 256.705 273.1
Structure of Jayapura in kecamatan

history

The city was founded by the Dutch as Hollandia in 1910 and was known by that name until 1962. During the Second World War it was the seat of a large naval base that was captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and retaken by the Americans in April 1944. From April 1944 to March 1945 it served as General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.

In 1945 it became the capital of Dutch New Guinea as Hollandia . In 1962 the area came under UN administration, the city was renamed Kota Baru ("new city"); 1963 Indonesia occupied the region, and the city was named after President Sukarno as Sukarnopura named ( "Sukarno City").

From 1968 it was called Jayapura ("victorious city").

Hollandia on the map from 1915
Listing of the extensive name history at the 100-year celebrations

Hundreds of people were arrested in October 2011 during protests by the province's Papuan people demanding a state in West Papua . At this meeting of the Papuan People's Congress , a flag of the separatist movement was also hoisted. On June 14, 2012, Indonesian police shot and killed Mako Tabuni , head of the secessionist West Papua National Committee (KNPB), during an attempted arrest , which led to serious unrest in the city.

Town twinning

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.citypopulation.de accessed on December 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Kota Jayapura
  3. ^ Biro Pusat Statistics, Jakarta, 2011.
  4. ^ Unrest in Papua in: FAZ of October 21, 2011, page 7.
  5. ↑ Indonesia: Unrest after the killing of Papua activist Tabuni ( memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), zenithonline.de from June 15, 2012 (accessed on June 17, 2012).

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