Bukittinggi

Bukittinggi is a city in the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia, about 90 kilometres by road from the provincial capital Padang. It covers 24.84 square kilometres at roughly 930 metres above sea level, is completely surrounded by Agam Regency, and had 121,028 inhabitants at the 2020 census. Formerly known as Fort de Kock after a Dutch outpost founded in 1825 during the Padri War, it was officially renamed Bukittinggi in 1949. It served as a centre of government under the Dutch and the Japanese, was the capital of Indonesia during the Emergency Government of the independence struggle, and was capital of the province of Central Sumatra from 1950 until 1957. Today it is a leading tourist city known for the Jam Gadang clock tower, Sianok Canyon and the Japanese Caves, and as the birthplace of the independence leader Mohammad Hatta.