Berau Regency

Coordinates: 2°00′00″N 117°18′00″E / 2.0000°N 117.3000°E / 2.0000; 117.3000
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Berau Regency
Kabupaten Berau
Regency
Aerial view of Derawan Island
Aerial view of Derawan Island
Coat of arms of Berau Regency
Coat of arms
Location within East Kalimantan
Location within East Kalimantan
Berau Regency is located in Kalimantan
Berau Regency
Berau Regency
Location in Kalimantan and Indonesia
Berau Regency is located in Indonesia
Berau Regency
Berau Regency
Berau Regency (Indonesia)
Coordinates: 2°00′00″N 117°18′00″E / 2.0000°N 117.3000°E / 2.0000; 117.3000
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceEast Kalimantan
CapitalTanjung Redeb
Government
 • RegentMuharram
 • Vice RegentAgus Tantomo
Area
 • Total36,962.37 km2 (14,271.25 sq mi)
Population
 (mid 2023 estimate)
 • Total280,998
 • Density7.6/km2 (20/sq mi)
 [1]
Time zoneUTC+8 (ICST)
Area code(+62) 554
Websiteberaukab.go.id

Berau Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Berau, Berau: Barrau) is the most northern of the seven regencies in East Kalimantan province in Indonesia.[2] The capital is the town of Tanjung Redeb. The regency has an area of 36,962.37 km2 and had a population of 179,079 at the 2010 census[3] and 248,035 at the 2020 census;[4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 280,998.[1]

Berau was formerly the name of a local sultanate that existed during the Dutch colonial period. In the early 19th century, it was divided into two separate sultanates: Gunung Tabur and Sambaliung.[5]

Administrative Districts[edit]

Berau Regency is divided into thirteen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census[3] and the 2020 census,[4] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.[1] The table also includes the location of the district headquarters, the number of administrative villages in each district (a total of 100 rural desa and 10 urban kelurahan), and of offshore islands in each district, and its postal codes.

Kode
Wilayah		 Name of
District
(kecamatan)		 Area
in
km2		 Pop'n
census
2010		 Pop'n
census
2020		 Pop'n
Estimate
mid 2023		 Admin
centre		 No.
of
villages		 No.
of
islands		 Post
codes
64.03.01 Kelay 6,556.54 4,493 8,958 7,255 Sido Bangen 14 - 77362
64.03.02 Talisayan 1,621.57 10,061 14,614 17,020 Talisayan 10 1 77375
64.03.10 Tabalar 1,837.34 5,151 6,843 7,917 Tubaan 6 2 77374
64.03.08 Biduk-Biduk 2,429.97 5,342 6,609 7,733 Biduk-Biduk 6 6 77373
64.03.07 Pulau Derawan (a) 4,423.99 8,372 11,341 14,399 Tanjung Batu 5 12 77380
64.03.11 Maratua 5,616.26 3,076 3,664 3,881 Maratua Teluk Harapan 4 25 77381
64.03.03 Sambaliung 2,163.37 24,174 36,784 44,532 Sambaliung 14 (b) - 77371
64.03.05 Tanjung Redeb 24.42 62,725 71,231 74,976 Tanjung Redeb 6 (c) - 77315 (d)
64.03.06 Gunung Tabur 1,963.32 14,938 25,012 31,394 Gunung Tabur 11 (e) 15 77352
63.03.04 Segah 5,241.29 8,396 14,368 17,942 Tepian Buah 13 - 77361
64.03.09 Teluk Bayur
(Bayur Bay)		 316.98 20,596 31,135 34,960 Teluk Bayur 6 (f) - 77352 (g)
64.03.12 Batu Putih 3,575.30 6,691 8,840 9,519 Batu Putih 7 5 77372
& 77373
64.03.13 Biatan 1,192.03 5,064 8,636 9,470 Biatan Lempake 8 - 77372
Totals 36,962.37 53,671 248,035 280,998 Tanjung Redeb 110 66

Notes: (a) while the name of this district literally means "Derawan Island", in practice the district includes a dozen large islands, together with part of the 'mainland' of Kalimantan.
(b) includes one kelurahan - the town of Sambaliung. (c) all 6 are kelurahan - Bugis, Gayam, Gunung Panjang, Karang Ambun, Sungai Bedungun and Tanjung Redeb.
(d) except the towns of Gunung Panjang (with a post code of 77311) and Bugis (with a post code of 77312.
(e) includes one kelurahan - the town of Gunung Tabur. (f) includes 2 kelurahan - the towns of Teluk Bayur and Rinding.
(g) except the towns of Rinding (with a post code of 77313) and Teluk Bayur and the village of Tumbit Melayu (with a post code of 77315).

Berau Marine Conservation Area[edit]

Konservasi Kawasan Laut (KKL) Berau (or "Berau Marine Conservation Area") was formed in 2005 and has an area of 1.321 million hectares, which includes Pulau Panjang (Long Island), Karangtigau Cape, and Baliktaba Reef. The area has the second highest coral reef biodiversity in Indonesia after Raja Ampat Islands and third highest in the world. The ecosystem covers coral reef, mangrove forest and sea grass.[6]

Literary significance[edit]

The novelist Joseph Conrad made four visits to Berau, stopping at Tanjung Redeb, while employed as the first mate of the merchant vessel S.S. Vidar in 1887–1888. The geographical setting and the lives of the small number of European traders based in Berau made a profound impression on him, and the setting for three of his novels (Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands and the second part of Lord Jim) is loosely based on Berau. Conrad sometimes refers to the Berau river as Pantai ("beach") and uses the fictional name Sambir to refer to Tanjung Redeb.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Kabupaten Berau Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6405)
  2. ^ "Kabupaten Berau website". Government of Indonesia. Archived from the original on 2 August 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  3. ^ a b Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
  5. ^ "Indonesian Traditional States II". World Statesmen.org. Cahoon, Ben. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Melindungi Keragaman Hayati Terumbu Karang Tertinggi Ketiga di Dunia KKL Berau". 4 February 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  7. ^ Sherry, Norman (1966). Conrad's Eastern World. Cambridge: University Press.

External links[edit]

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