Madiun

Madiun is a city in the western part of East Java, Indonesia, known as an agricultural centre. It lies on the Madiun River, a tributary of the Bengawan Solo, about 169 kilometres southwest of Surabaya, at an average height of 63 metres above sea level and ringed by Mount Wilis, the Kapur Selatan range and Mount Lawu. The city covers 33.23 square kilometres and counted 195,175 people at the 2020 census, with an official estimate of 200,653 for mid 2025. It has been administratively separate from the surrounding Madiun Regency since 1950, though it remained the regency seat until 2010, and is divided into three districts. Its nickname Kota Gadis is an acronym for trading, education and industrial city. In September 1948 the city was the centre of the Madiun Affair, an uprising by Communist Party militia that republican troops suppressed within weeks. Madiun has a tropical monsoon climate and is crossed by the Solo-Kertosono toll road.