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Highland Papua (Indonesian: Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. [6] It covers an area of 51,213.33 km 2 (19,773.58 sq mi) and had a population of 1,448,360 according to the official estimates as at mid 2023.
Southwest Papua (Indonesian: Papua Barat Daya) is the 38th province of Indonesia to be created, and was split off from West Papua on 8 December 2022. [4] Despite being named southwest, it is a misnomer and this province is actually located in the northwest edge of Papua .
Included in this new legislation was the provision to create new provinces, and in July 2022 new national legislation split South Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua from Papua [12] through Law Number 14 of 2022, Law Number 15 of 2022, and Law Number 16 of 2022 respectively. [9]
Pacific island nations at the centre of a strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China that brought infrastructure and funding hope President-elect Donald Trump stays engaged in the region but are ...
Thus, South Papua is the only province on the island of Papua with a percentage of Catholicism that exceeds other religions. This significant number of Catholic residents supports the formation of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Merauke and Roman Catholic Diocese of Agats which are the ecclesiastical province in the Roman Catholic Church led by ...
Teminabuan is a district in South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua, Indonesia.The district includes the town of Kaibus (which serves as the administrative capital of South Sorong Regency) and its northern suburb of Kohoin.
Merauke Regency is a regency in the far south of the Indonesian province of South Papua.It covers an area of 45,013.35 km 2, and had a population of 195,716 at the 2010 Census [3] and 230,932 at the 2020 Census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 243,722, comprising 126,508 males and 117,214 females. [1]
A total of 38 provinces have been established from the original eight in 1945, [140] the most recent change being the split of Southwest Papua from the province of West Papua in 2022. [141] The second level are the regencies (kabupaten) and cities (kota), led by regents (bupati) and mayors (walikota), respectively, and a legislature (DPRD ...