Berau Regency

Berau Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Berau) is one of the seven regencies in East Kalimantan province in Indonesia.[2] The capital is the town of Tanjung Redeb. It 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 2022 was 272,887.[1]

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: 2.0000°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 2022 estimate)
 • Total272,887
 • Density7.4/km2 (19/sq mi)
 [1]
Time zoneUTC+8 (ICST)
Area code(+62) 554
Websiteberaukab.go.id

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

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 2022.[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.

Name of
District
(kecamatan)		Area
in
km2		Pop'n
census
2010		Pop'n
census
2020		Pop'n
Estimate
mid 2022		Admin
centre		No.
of
villages		No.
of
islands		Post
codes
Kelay6,556.544,4938,9589,988Sido Bangen14-77362
Talisayan1,621.5710,06114,61415,326Talisayan10177375
Tabalar1,837.345,1516,8437,054Tubaan6277374
Biduk-Biduk2,429.975,3426,6096,719Biduk-Biduk6677373
Pulau Derawan (a)4,423.998,37211,34111,734Tanjung Batu51277380
Maratua5,616.263,0763,6643,698Maratua Teluk Harapan42577381
Sambaliung2,163.3724,17436,78438,925Sambaliung14-77371
Tanjung Redeb24.4262,72571,23171,227Tanjung Redeb6-77315 (b)
Gunung Tabur1,963.3214,93825,01225,962Gunung Tabur111577352
Segah5,241.298,39614,36815,554Tepian Buah13-77361
Teluk Bayur
(Bayur Bay)		316.9820,59631,13532,905Teluk Bayur6-77352 (c)
Batu Putih3,575.306,6918,8409,102Batu Putih7577372
& 77373
Biatan1,192.035,0648,6369,343Biatan Lempake8-77372
Totals36,962.3753,671248,035258,537Tanjung Redeb11066

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) except the villages of Gunung Panjang (with a post code of 77311) and Bugis (with a post code of 77312. (c) except the villages of Rinding (with a post code of 77313) and Teluk Bayur and Tumbit Melayu (with a post code of 77315).

Berau Marine Conservation Area

Konservasi Kawasan Laut (KKL) Berau or Berau Marine Conservation Area is formed in 2005 has 1,321 million hectares area which lies among 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

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 and uses the fictional name Sambir to refer to Tanjung Redeb.[7]

References
  1. Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2023, Kabupaten Berau Dalam Angka 2023 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6403)
  2. "Kabupaten Berau website". Government of Indonesia. Archived from the original on 2 August 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  3. Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
  4. 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.

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