Langgur
| Kota Langgur Langgur |
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 39 ′ S , 132 ° 44 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Maluku | ||
| province | Maluku | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-MA | ||
| Kabupaten | Southeast Moluccas | ||
| Residents | 9777 (2010) | ||
 Ambachtschule in Langgur during the colonial period
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Langgur ( Indonesian Kota Langgur , also Langgoer , formerly Ohoingur ) is a place on the Indonesian island of Kei Kecil . It has been the capital of the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) of the southeastern Moluccas (Maluku Tenggara) in the province of Maluku since 2011 .
geography
Langgur is located on the northeast coast of the island and is connected by a bridge to its twin city Tual on the neighboring island of Kei Dullah , the capital of the Kei Islands and the former administrative seat of the Southeast Moluccas.
Langgur forms its own desa . He belongs to the sub-district ( Kecamatan ) Kei Kecil .
population
The Desa Langgur has 9,777 inhabitants (2010). The place is the Christian center of the Kei Islands while Tual is the Muslim center. The majority of the inhabitants of the archipelago are Catholics.
history
In the second half of the 19th century, the number of Muslims on the Kei Islands increased through conversion . In 1860 only descendants of refugees from the Banda Islands and a few traders from Makassar in Tual and Elat were followers of Islam, the number of Muslims in 1887 was 5,893, a third of the population. The German entrepreneur Adolph Langen therefore proposed in a letter to the apostolic vicar in Batavia that the population should be Christianized. In 1888 the first Catholic mission was founded in Tual. In 1889 the missionaries treated cholera sufferers in the Tual opposite Ohoingur on Kei Kecil. As a result, the first residents were baptized and in 1890 the mission was relocated to Ohoingur, which was later renamed Langgur in honor of Adolph Langen. It is still an important center of the Catholic faith in the southern Moluccas today.
economy
The Kei Islands airport is near Langgur.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the administrative district of the Southeast Moluccas
- ^ A b East Indonesia.info: Tual & Langgur: The Twin Capitals of Kei
- ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ^ Ethnologue.com: Kei
- ↑ Musibah: Entitlements, Violence and Reinventing Tradition in the Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku, Paper submitted for the International Association for the Study of Common Property 9th Biennial Conference, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica