Tual

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Tual
Tual
Coordinates	5 ° 38 ′  S , 132 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 5 ° 38 ′  S , 132 ° 45 ′  E
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coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Indonesia
Geographical unit	Maluku
province	Maluku
Kota	Tual
Residents	10,527 (2010)

Kota  Tual
Basic data
Country
province	Maluku
Seat	Tual
surface	254.4 km²
Aerial photo of Tual (1980)

Tual ( Toal , Indonesian Kota Tual ) is a place on the Indonesian island of Kei Dullah and the capital of the Kei Islands . From 1957 Tual was the capital of the administrative district of the Southeast Moluccas . In 2011 the neighboring town of Langgur became the new administrative center.

geography

location

The place is located on the west coast of the island and is connected by a bridge to its twin town Langgur on the neighboring island of Kei Kecil .

administration

Tual forms an autonomous city in the province of Maluku , to which administratively numerous islands in the north and west of the Kei Islands belong. The total area is 254.39 km².

Tual is divided into several districts ( Kecamatan ). To Pulau Dullah Selatan , with the city of Tual, belongs to the southern part of Kei Dullah and the north of Kei Kecil islands Ut , Krus , Ubur , crane and fair . The Pulau Dullah Utara sub-district consists of the north of Kei Dullah and the islands of Duroa ( Du Roa ), Moanumayanat ( Muhanuhujanat ), Dranan , Rumadan , Rumadan Laer , Sua , Baeer ( Bair ), Maas ( Ohoimas ), Watlora and Adranan . The group of islands around Tayando ( Tayandu ) forms the sub- district Tayando Tam . These also include the islands of Furalnur , Walir , Heniar ( Haniar, Heniaar ), Ree , Reeyanat , Nusreen , Nuwait , Nuniai and Tam . The last sub-district is Pulau Pulau Kur with the islands Kur ( Kuur ), Mangur ( Manggur ), Wonin , Fadol , Kaimear ( Kaimeer, Keimeer ), Bui and Tengah .

population

Women in Tual (1981)

The Desa Tual has 10,527 inhabitants (2010). The majority are Muslim immigrants from other parts of Indonesia. Tual is therefore the center of Islam in the archipelago. The ancestral population of Pulau Pulau Kur are also mostly Muslims.

history

In 1888 the first Catholic mission in the archipelago was founded in Tual, which was relocated to neighboring Langgur in 1890.

In January 1999 there were clashes between Christians and Muslims on Ambon, which resulted in over 5,000 deaths and 500,000 refugees. The interreligious conflict also spread to other islands in the Central Moluccas, such as Seram, Buru , Tanimbar and also the Kei Islands, where it was not expected due to the harmonious coexistence of religions. On March 29, however, a 16-year-old boy wrote abusive comments on the walls of a mosque in Tual. The boy later claimed he was responding to anti-Jesus graffiti. Muslim protesters called for the perpetrator to be investigated and punished, but because he was under 17, the police let him go after a warning. The following night, barricades were erected and youth gangs attacked each other in Tual and Faan (a Christian suburb on Kei Kecil, south of Langgur) with machetes, spears, bows and arrows, bamboo cannons and Molotov cocktails. The Muslims with white headbands, the Christians with red. On the second day, the unrest spread to Kei Besar. The unrest did not end until June. A total of 200 people were lost to the Kei Islands, 30,000 people (a quarter of the total population of the Kei Islands) were displaced and 4,000 buildings were destroyed. Malaria and other diseases claimed more victims in the refugee camps.

economy

Tual is the main port of the Kei Islands, the airport is in the neighboring town of Langgur.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} East Indonesia.info: Tual & Langgur: The Twin Capitals of Kei
2. ↑ ^{a b} Map of Kota Tual
3. ↑ ^{a b} Map of the Eastern Kei Islands
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
5. ^ Ethnologue: Kur
6. ↑ ^{a b} 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
7. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica