Provinces of Indonesia

Provinces of Indonesia
Category	Province
Location	Indonesia
Created	17 August 1945
Number	34 Provinces (as of 17 November 2012)
Populations	Smallest: 622,350 (North Kalimantan) Largest: 43,053,732 (West Java)
Areas	Smallest: 664 km2 (256 sq mi) (Jakarta) Largest: 319,036 km2 (123,180 sq mi) (Papua)
Government	Governor
Subdivisions	Regencies and cities

Provinces of Indonesia are the 34 administrative division of Indonesia and the highest tier of the local government (formerly called first-level region provinces or provinsi daerah tingkat I). Provinces are further divided into regencies and cities (formerly called second-level region regencies and cities or kabupaten/kotamadya daerah tingkat II), which are in turn subdivided into districts (kecamatan).

Background

Each province has a local government, headed by a governor and a legislative body. The governor and members of local representative bodies are elected by popular vote for five-year terms.

Current provinces

Indonesia has 34 provinces. Five provinces have special status:

• Aceh, for the use of sharia as provincial criminal law
• Jakarta as the capital city
• Papua and West Papua, for granting implementation of sustainable development
• Special Region of Yogyakarta, which has Sultan Hamengkubuwono as hereditary governor and Paku Alam as hereditary vice-governor

The provinces are officially grouped into seven geographical units.^[1]

Table of provinces

Provinces of Indonesia^[2][3]

Arms	Province	Indonesian name	Indonesian acronym	ISO[4]	Capital	Population (2020 Census)[5]	Area (km2)	Population density per km2 (2010)	Geographical unit	Number of cities and regencies	Number of cities	Number of regencies
	Aceh	Aceh	Aceh	ID-AC	Banda Aceh	5,274,871	57,956	77	Sumatra	23	5	18
	Bali	Bali	Bali	ID-BA	Denpasar	4,317,404	5,780	621	Lesser Sunda Islands	9	1	8
	Bangka Belitung Islands	Kepulauan Bangka Belitung	Babel	ID-BB	Pangkal Pinang	1,455,678	16,424	64	Sumatra	7	1	6
	Banten	Banten	Banten	ID-BT	Serang	11,904,562	9,662	909	Java	8	4	4
	Bengkulu	Bengkulu	Bengkulu	ID-BE	Bengkulu	2,010,670	19,919	84	Sumatra	10	1	9
	Central Java	Jawa Tengah	Jateng	ID-JT	Semarang	36,516,035	40,800	894	Java	35	6	29
	Central Kalimantan	Kalimantan Tengah	Kalteng	ID-KT	Palangka Raya	2,669,969	153,564	14	Kalimantan	14	1	13
	Central Sulawesi	Sulawesi Tengah	Sulteng	ID-ST	Palu	2,985,734	61,841	41	Sulawesi	13	1	12
	East Java	Jawa Timur	Jatim	ID-JI	Surabaya	40,665,696	47,799	828	Java	38	9	29
	East Kalimantan[6]	Kalimantan Timur	Kaltim	ID-KI	Samarinda	3,766,039	127,267	22	Kalimantan	10	3	7
	East Nusa Tenggara	Nusa Tenggara Timur	NTT	ID-NT	Kupang	5,325,566	48,718	92	Lesser Sunda Islands	22	1	21
	Gorontalo	Gorontalo	Gorontalo	ID-GO	Gorontalo	1,171,681	11,257	94	Sulawesi	6	1	5
	Special Capital Region of Jakarta	Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta	DKI Jakarta	ID-JK	Jakarta[a]	10,562,088	664	12,786	Java	6	5	1
	Jambi	Jambi	Jambi	ID-JA	Jambi	3,548,228	50,058	57	Sumatra	11	2	9
	Lampung	Lampung	Lampung	ID-LA	Bandar Lampung	9,007,848	34,623	226	Sumatra	15	2	13
	Maluku	Maluku	Maluku	ID-MA	Ambon	1,848,923	46,914	32	Maluku Islands	11	2	9
	North Kalimantan	Kalimantan Utara	Kaltara	ID-KU	Tanjung Selor	701,814	72,275	10	Kalimantan	5	1	4
	North Maluku	Maluku Utara	Malut	ID-MU	Sofifi	1,282,937	31,982	31	Maluku Islands	10	2	8
	North Sulawesi	Sulawesi Utara	Sulut	ID-SA	Manado	2,621,923	13,851	162	Sulawesi	15	4	11
	North Sumatra	Sumatra Utara	Sumut	ID-SU	Medan	14,799,361	72,981	188	Sumatra	33	8	25
	Papua	Papua	Papua	ID-PA	Jayapura	4,303,707	319,036	8	Western New Guinea	29	1	28
	Riau	Riau	Riau	ID-RI	Pekanbaru	6,394,087	87,023	52	Sumatra	12	2	10
	Riau Islands	Kepulauan Riau	Kepri	ID-KR	Tanjung Pinang	2,064,564	8,201	208	Sumatra	7	2	5
	Southeast Sulawesi	Sulawesi Tenggara	Sultra	ID-SG	Kendari	2,624,875	38,067	51	Sulawesi	17	2	15
	South Kalimantan	Kalimantan Selatan	Kalsel	ID-KS	Banjarmasin	4,073,584	38,744	96	Kalimantan	13	2	11
	South Sulawesi	Sulawesi Selatan	Sulsel	ID-SN	Makassar	9,073,509	46,717	151	Sulawesi	24	3	21
	South Sumatra	Sumatra Selatan	Sumsel	ID-SS	Palembang	8,467,432	91,592	86	Sumatra	17	4	13
	West Java	Jawa Barat	Jabar	ID-JB	Bandung	48,274,162	35,377	1,176	Java	27	9	18
	West Kalimantan	Kalimantan Barat	Kalbar	ID-KB	Pontianak	5,414,390	147,307	30	Kalimantan	14	2	12
	West Nusa Tenggara	Nusa Tenggara Barat	NTB	ID-NB	Mataram	5,320,092	18,572	234	Lesser Sunda Islands	10	2	8
	West Papua	Papua Barat	Pabar	ID-PB[7]	Manokwari	1,134,068	97,024	8	Western New Guinea	13	1	12
	West Sulawesi	Sulawesi Barat	Sulbar	ID-SR	Mamuju	1,419,229	16,787	73	Sulawesi	6	0	6
	West Sumatra	Sumatra Barat	Sumbar	ID-SB	Padang	5,534,472	42,012	110	Sumatra	19	7	12
	Special Region of Yogyakarta	Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta	DIY	ID-YO	Yogyakarta	3,668,719	3,133	1,138	Java	5	1	4

Former provinces

Three-province Sumatra (1948–56)

Two-province Sulawesi (1960–64)

Coat of arms of East Timor province

Upon the independence of Indonesia, eight provinces were established. West Java, Central Java, East Java, and Maluku still exist as of today despite later divisions, while Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Nusa Tenggara, formerly Lesser Sunda (Sunda Kecil) were fully liquidated by dividing them into new provinces. The province of Central Sumatra existed from 1948 to 1957, while East Timor was annexed as a province from 1976 until its power transfer to UNTAET in 1999 prior to its independence as a country in 2002.

There was a plan to form the province of Central Papua [id] (Papua Tengah) from Papua's territories intended to be centered in Timika which was canceled in 2001.^[8]

New provinces made from currently-existing provinces

The provinces' development in Indonesia over the years

Pre-1999 Maluku (L) and Irian Jaya (now Papua, R)

Renamed provinces

See also

• Armorial of Indonesia
• List of Indonesian floral emblems
• List of Indonesian provinces by GRP per capita
• List of Indonesian provinces by Human Development Index

General:

• List of regencies and cities of Indonesia
• Subdivisions of Indonesia

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