Nine Indonesian Regency Towns from West Java to the Kei Islands

Cibinong is the regency seat of Bogor, and the atlas records 379,786 people on only 44.27 square kilometers in the mid-2024 estimate. It sits just south of Depok inside the Jakarta metropolitan area, so a town with a regency capital title is in practice a dense suburb, with a science center and a preserved swamp forest documented since 1933.

Ciamis is a smaller West Java regency seat of 102,059 people, and its past is older than its size suggests. The government center moved to the site on 12 June 1642, then called Barunay or Imbanagara, while the regency traces itself to the Galuh Kingdom, and the name means sweet river in Sundanese.

Amlapura in eastern Bali is the seat of Karangasem Regency and covers just 3.048 square kilometers. It took its present name in 1963 after the eruption of Mount Agung destroyed most of its colonial-era government buildings, and it has won the national Adipura Award three times as a clean small city.

Sampit on the Sampit River in Central Kalimantan is a former timber port of 167,850 people, recorded with no independent administrative status of its own. It stayed under Japanese occupation until 1946 and is known abroad for the ten day Sampit conflict of February 2001 between Dayak and Madurese communities.

Tenggarong, once called Tepian Pandan, stands on the west bank of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan and is the centre of Kutai Kartanegara Regency. The atlas records 106,480 people at the 2020 census and a 1782 founding date, and notes that the east bank villages were split off as a separate district in 1996.

Tondano lies in the North Sulawesi highlands on Lake Tondano, about 35 kilometers south of Manado, at 811 meters elevation. Its name comes from a Minahasan word for water people, it is the capital of Minahasa Regency, and it is the birthplace of national hero Sam Ratulangi, first governor of Sulawesi.

Tual is a city of 90,470 people in the Kei Islands of Maluku, centered on Dullah Island. It became an independent city on 17 July 2007 when it was separated from the rest of the Kei Islands, and its economy rests on fisheries, which landed about 30,638 tons of seafood in 2019.

Kefamenanu in West Timor is the capital of North Central Timor Regency, with 49,673 people in the late 2024 estimate over 74 square kilometers. It is linked by road to Atambua to the northeast and hosts the University of Timor, one of two public universities in the Indonesian part of the island.

Atambua, in the north of western Timor, is the seat of Belu Regency and was established by the Dutch in October 1916 after administration moved from Atapupu. After East Timor voted for independence in 1999 it received more than 250,000 refugees, and about 60,000 were still in camps there by 2002.