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Kapuas Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Kapuas) is one of the thirteen regencies which divide Central Kalimantan Province, on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia. It formerly covered a wider area, but in 2002 two further regencies (Pulang Pisau Regency and Gunung Mas Regency) were cut out of it, and the residual area is now 14,999 km.² Its population was 329,646 at the 2010 Census[2] and 410,400 at the 2020 Census.[3] The capital is the town of Kuala Kapuas.

Kapuas Regency Kabupaten Kapuas
Regency
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Location within Central Kalimantan
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Coordinates: 3°00′00″S 114°22′48″E
Country	Indonesia
Region	Kalimantan
Province	Central Kalimantan
Capital	Kuala Kapuas
Government
• Regent	Ben Brahim S. Bahat
• Vice Regent	Muhajirin
Area
• Total	5,791 sq mi (14,999 km2)
Population  (2020 Census)[1]
• Total	410,400
• Density	71/sq mi (27/km2)
Time zone	UTC+7 (IWST)
Area code	(+62) 513
Website	kapuaskab.go.id

Administrative Districts

Kapuas Regency consists of seventeen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 Census[2] and from the 2020 Census.[4] The 2020 Census figures are rounded to the nearest 100 people. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan) in each district, and its postal codes.

Name	Area in km2	Population Census 2010[2]	Population Census 2020[5]	Number of villages	Post codes
Kapuas Kuala (a)	360.62	18,763	22,000	13	73583
Tamban Catur	66.38	14,592	16,800	10	73582
Kapuas Timur (East Kapuas)	202.00	23,535	30,000	7	73581
Selat	111.74	56,902	69,800	10	73511-73516
Bataguh	282.26	33,737	42,200	15	73516
Basarang	206.00	18,073	23,600	14	73564
Kapuas Hilir (Lower Kapuas)	91.00	13,036	14,600	8	73521-73525
Pulau Petak	135.00	18,873	23,000	12	73592
Kapuas Murung	288.45	24,589	28,400	23	73594
Dadahup	202.55	11,253	13,500	13	73593
Kapuas Barat (West Kapuas)	480.00	18,412	21,900	12	73552
Mantangai	6,128.00	35,500	45,300	38	73553
Timpah	2,016.00	9,548	12,000	9	73554
Kapuas Tengah (Central Kapuas)	1,146.00	14,009	18,200	13	73555
Pasak Talawang	687.00	5,920	10,700	10	73557
Kapuas Hulu (Upper Kapuas)	1,274.00	7,546	11,700	14	74581
Mandau Talawang	1,322.00	5,348	6,700	10	73556
Totals	14,999.00	329,646	410,400	231

Notes: (a) includes the offshore island of Pulau Roko.

Geography

The total area of Kapuas Regency is 14,999 square km (9.77% of the area of Central Kalimantan Province), delineated into ebbtide and non-ebbtide areas.[6] It adjoins Gunung Mas Regency, the Java Sea, Barito Selatan Regency and Kalimantan Selatan Province (Barito Kuala Regency), and Pulang Pisau Regency, to the north, south, east and west, respectively.

The north is marked by hills and mountains up to 500 metres above sea level, while the south is coastal and marshy, ebb-tidal and vulnerable to flooding. Rivers in Kapuas Regency are the Kapuas and Kapuas Murung, 600 and 66.38 km in length, respectively. There are four canals: Anjir Serapat (28 km in length;) and Anjir Tamban (25 km), each connecting Kuala Kapuas with Banjarmasin, running through Kalimantan Tengah (for 13–14 km) and Kalimantan Selatan (12–14 km); the Anjir Kalampan (14.5 km), connecting Mandomai, the capital of Kapuas Barat district, with Pulang Pisau Regency; and the Anjir Basarang (24 km), connecting Kuala Kapuas with Pulang Pisau.

Climate

Kapuas Kuala, the seat of the regency, has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall in all months except July and August.

Administration

Kapuas Regency's seventeen districts include 231 villages. In 2009 there were 204 villages (190 rural desa and 14 urban kelurahan). These were categorised as 44 traditional (swadaya), 61 transitional (swakarya) and 59 development (swasembada) villages, 6 isolated villages/wards (2.94 percent) and 52 poor villages/wards (25.49 percent). In 2009, there were 190 desa heads, 160 desa secretaries, 950 desa staff, 14 kelurahan heads and 14 kelurahan secretaries.

Population

The 2010 census recorded 329,646 people, including 167,937 males (50.98%) and 161,503 females (49.02%). The 2020 Census total rose to 410,400. The 2020 population density was 27.36 people/km2, ranging from a high of 624.66 in Selat to only 5.07 people/km2 in Mandau Talawang.

Demographics

Religion as of 2018:[8]

• Muslim 77.71%
• Protestant 12.15%
• Hindu 9.35%
• Roman Catholic 0.77%
• Buddhist 0.01%
• Confucian 0.00%

Social

Education is a development sector given priority by government (1945 Constitution mandate, as stated in article no 31 point 2), with an ultimate aim of improving the quality of human resources in Indonesia. There were 147 kindergartens in the regency, with 390 teachers and 4,181 students in 2009. In 2010, there were 390 Primary schools (including private schools), with 2,736 teachers and 40,714 students, yielding student:teacher ratio of about 14.88. There were 86 Junior High schools (state and private), with 1,085 teachers, 9,667 students and 465 classrooms; 25 Senior High schools (state and private), with 636 teachers and 5,886 students.

The region had only 38 doctors in 2010, resulting in a service ratio of 8,669.

References

External links

• Phone Directory in Kapuas Regency
• INFORMASI KAPUAS
• KUALA KAPUAS
• Official Website of Local Government
• General Hospital of Kapuas Regency
• Indonesian Medical Association Branch Kapuas
• Photos about Kapuas
• Indonesia Redcross Branch Kapuas
• Panorama Kapuas

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