Kalimantan Timur

Kalimantan Timur
Basic data
Area :	129,067 km²
Residents :	3,630,765
Population density :	28 inhabitants / km²
Capital :	Samarinda
governor	Isran Noor
Location in Indonesia
Website :	www.kaltimprov.go.id

Kalimantan Timur (German Ostkalimantan ), sometimes abbreviated to Kaltim , is an Indonesian province on the island of Borneo .

geography

East Kalimantan is located in the eastern part of the island and borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak in the northwest . To the southwest are the Indonesian provinces of West , Central and South Kalimantan , to the north the province of North Kalimantan, which was separated from East Kalimantan in 2012 . The largest cities in East Kalimantan are the oil port of Balikpapan (650,000 inhabitants) and the capital Samarinda (780,000 inhabitants).

East Kalimantan is divided into seven administrative districts ( Kabupaten ) and three cities ( Kota ) that are directly subordinate to the province .

Administrative division of East Kalimantan

Administrative division

Code Wilayah area code	coat of arms	Kabupaten / Kota administrative district / city	Ibu Kota seat of government!	Kecamatan Sub- District	Keluruhan / Desa municipality	Area [km²]	Population [2019]	Inh. / Km² [2019]
64.01		Kabupaten paser	Tana Paser	10	5/139	7,730.88	265.148	34.3
64.02		Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara	Tenggarong	18th	44/193	23,601.91	696.784	29.5
64.03		Kabupaten Berau	Tanjung Redeb	13	10/100	21,240.00	232.189	10.9
64.07		Kabupaten Kutai Barat	Sendawar	16	4/190	20,381.59	164.048	8.0
64.08		Kabupaten Kutai Timur	Sanggatta	18th	2/139	35,747.50	422.905	11.8
64.09		Kabupaten Penajam Paser Utara	Penajam	4th	24/30	3,333.06	173,671	52.1
64.11		Kabupaten Mahakam Ulu	Long bagun	5	0/50	15,315.00	30,321	2.0
64.71		Kota Balikpapan	Balikpapan	6th	34 /	527.00	670.505	1272.3
64.72		Kota Samarinda	Samarinda	10	59 /	783.00	793.576	1013.5
64.74		Kota Bontang	Bontang	3	15 /	406.70	181,618	446.6
64	Provinsi Kalimantan Timur		Samarinda	103	197/841	129,066.64	3,630,765	28.1

Source: Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 (ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of October 2019):

The population information is based on updates by the regional civil registration offices and comes from the 2nd half of 2019.

history

After the Islamization of the region in the 15th century, four sultanates emerged here . In 1844 these were colonized by the Dutch , but they continued to resist, even under the Japanese occupation in World War II (1941–45). After the war, the Federation of the Four Kingdoms joined the State of Indonesia and became Kalimantan Timur Province in 1957. In 2012 the new province of Kalimantan Utara was separated from Kalimantan Timur .

In summer 2019, the Indonesian government announced that it would move the seat of government from Jakarta to East Kalimantan in 2024. The as yet unnamed new capital is to be built on previously forested state-owned land in the administrative districts of Penajam Nordpaser and Kutai Kertanegara near the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda .

In November 2012, four administrative districts ( Kabupaten 65.04 Bulungan, 64.06 Malinau, 64.05 Nunukan and 64.10 Tana Tleid) and the (independent) city ( Kota ) Tarakan (area code: 64.73) were split off to form the province of Kalimantan Utara .

In January 2013, the new administrative district Mahakam Ulu with five sub-districts was formed from parts of the administrative district of Kutai Barat (Wet Kutai).

population

The population consists mainly of indigenous Dayak (-Benuaq) and Malays .

At the end of 2019, 87.33% of the population were Islamic, 7.61% of the population were Protestants and 4.38% were Catholics. Other religions each made up less than one percent of the population.

economy

Kalimantan Timur is considered the most economically advanced province in the Indonesian part of Borneo. Crude oil and natural gas are extracted, other branches of the economy are mining ( gold , diamonds ), the timber industry and agriculture. Their expansion into the primary rainforest is intensified by the Indonesian transmigration program . The price for this lies in the massive deforestation of the forests and the threat to the island's unique wildlife, which creates major ecological problems.

There are large coal deposits in the province . Half of the national consumption is supplied from here; around 70 percent of the coal mined is exported abroad.

The largest companies active in coal mining are PT Kaltim Prima Coal (65% PT Bumi Resources Tbk, 30% Tata Power Ltd., 5% PT Kutai Timur Energi, PT Berau Coal (51% PT Armadian Tritunggal, 39% Rognar Holding BV (Netherlands), 10% Sojitz Corporation (Japan) and PT Kideco Jaya Agung (49% Samtan Co Ltd (South Korea), 46% PT Indika Energy Tbk, 5% PT Muji Inti Utama)).