Sikka

Kabupaten Sikka Sikka
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Basic data
Country	Indonesia
province	East Nusa Tenggara
Seat	Maumere
surface	1,731.9 km²
Residents	278.392
density	161 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	ID-NT

Coordinates: 8 ° 29 ′  S , 122 ° 58 ′  E

Sikka is a government district ( Kabupaten ) in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara and a former empire on the island of Flores .

geography

Around 278,392 people live in the 1731.91 km² administrative district with its eight districts. The capital is Maumere with 70,000 inhabitants. In the north lies the Floressee , south the Sawusee . In the east Sikka borders on Ostflores with its capital Larantuka and in the west on the administrative district Ende with its capital of the same name Ende . Sikka also includes 18 islands in the Flores Sea , eight of which are inhabited: Besar , Babi , Pangabatang , Dambilah , Perumaan , Kojadoi , Pemana Besar , Palu and Sukun . The islands were badly hit by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 1992.

history

The Portuguese founded a base here, but it was soon only nominally under their control. In fact, the Sica were in control, a mixed Portuguese-indigenous population who built a small empire here. Some of them moved to Timor in 1851 , where they formed an important part of the Portuguese colonial forces.

In 1851 the Portuguese governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima sold Sikka and other areas of the Lesser Sunda Islands , which were under Portuguese sovereignty, to the Netherlands for 200,000 florins without authorization from Lisbon . Lisbon did not recognize the sale and had Lopes arrested. He died on the way back to Europe. From 1854 the agreements were renegotiated. The sale was finally confirmed in the Lisbon Treaty . The ratification took place in 1859. According to the treaty, the population could keep their Catholic faith. But the Dutch never took internal control of the empire. Until the end of the 19th century, the native Rajas even set the Portuguese flag . Dom Sentia da Silva , the last Catholic Raja of Sikka, did not give up his political power until Indonesia's independence .

economy

Cocoa, cashews and coconuts are grown, while rice, corn, cassava, sweet potatoes, soybeans, peanuts and mung beans are grown for food production. The relatively large forests in the region compared to other areas in the region provide tamarind and rattan.

The maritime parks of Maumere and the Gulf of Nagahure and the beach of Waliti are of great tourist interest . But there is a lack of the necessary infrastructure.

traffic

There is a flight connection from Denpasar in Bali to Maumere's Wai Oti Airport .

Web links

Commons : Sikka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

• History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB)
• Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912 . Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-08-7 , ( Abera Network Asia-Pacific 4), (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1994).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sikka regional investment
2. ↑ ^{a b} Worldvision Sikka
3. ↑ PULAU SUKUN, SEBERKAS CAHAYA ISLAM DI TENGAH LAUT FLORES , accessed on June 9, 2016.