Luwu

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Kabupaten Luwu Luwu district
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coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Indonesia
province	South Sulawesi
Seat	Belopa
surface	3099 km²
ISO 3166-2	ID-SN
Website	www.luwukab.go.id (Indonesian)
Residence of the Prince of Luwu in Palopo (around 1920)

Coordinates: 3 ° 10 ′  S , 120 ° 12 ′  E

Luwu is a government district ( Kabupaten ) in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi . Luwu has an area of ​​3,098.97 km². The main town has been Belopa since 2006 , before that the capital was Palopo . The majority of the inhabitants are Bugis .

history

The name goes back to the Kingdom of Luwu (also Luwuq or Wareq ), the oldest kingdom in Sulawesi Selatan. The Dutch governor Braam Morris von Makassar dated the heyday of the empire to the tenth to fourteenth centuries in 1889. La Galigo , an epic poem in an archaic form of the Buginese language , probably served as its source . The Bugireich Luwu was occupied by the Dutch in 1905.

Administrative division

The Luwu district consists of 21 administrative districts ( Kecamatan ) (as of 2010):

Surname	Population census 2010
Larompong	18,834
Larompong Selatan (South Larompong)	15,800
Suli	18,479
Suli Barat (West Suli)	8,491
Belopa	14,812
Kamanre	11,238
Belopa Utara (Northern Belopa)	14,545
Bajo	14,238
Bajo Barat (West Bajo)	9,324
Bassesangtempe (Bastem)	14,115
Latimojong	5,457
Bupon (Bua Ponrang)	14,451
Ponrang	26,114
Ponrang Selatan (Soüd-Ponrang)	23,744
Bua	30,955
Whale rank	17,433
Walenrang Timur (East Walenrang)	15,281
Lamasi	20,364
Walenrang Utara (North Walenrang)	17,744
Walenrang Barat (West Walenrang)	8,897
Lamasi Timur (East Lamasi)	12,166

Web links

Commons : Luwu Regency  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• F. DAVID BULBECK: "Economy, Military and Ideology in Pre-Islamic Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia" (PDF; 7.8 MB)
• Kingdoms of Indonesia: The Datu of Luwu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pelras, C. 1996. The Bugis. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. ^ Biro Pusat Statistics, Jakarta, 2011.