Sula Islands Regency

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Sula Islands Regency

Kabupaten Kepulauan Sula
Regency
Coat of arms of Sula Islands Regency
Coat of arms
Motto(s): 
Dad Hia Ted Sua
Sula Islands Regency is located in Sula Islands
Sula Islands Regency
Sula Islands Regency
Location in Sula Islands, Maluku and Indonesia
Coordinates: 1°52′S 125°22′E / 1.867°S 125.367°E / -1.867; 125.367Coordinates: 1°52′S 125°22′E / 1.867°S 125.367°E / -1.867; 125.367
Country Indonesia
Province North Maluku
CapitalSanana
Government
 • RegentHendrata Thes
 • Vice RegentZulfahri Abdulah Duwila
Area
 • Total3,338.67 km2 (1,289.07 sq mi)
Population
 (2020 Census)[1]
 • Total104,082
 • Density31/km2 (81/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+9 (IEST)
Area code(+62) 921
Websitekepulauansulakab.go.id

The Sula Islands Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Kepulauan Sula) is one of the regencies in North Maluku province of Indonesia. It covers a land area of 3,338.67 km2 and consists of two of the three large islands comprising the Sula Archipelago, together with minor adjacent islands. These two islands are (formerly Sanama) and Mangoli (formerly Mangole). The third island, Taliabu, was split off from the Sula Islands Regency in 2013 to form a separate regency.

Pre-Indonesian Independence saw[clarification needed] the Sula Islands also known as the Xulla Islands, with Taliabo as Xulla Taliabo, Sanana as Xulla Bessi, and Mangoli as Xulla Mangola.[2]

Administration[]

Sula Islands Regency comprises twelve districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and populations at the 2010 Census[3] and the 2020 Census.[4] The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, and the number of villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan) in each district.

Name English name Area in
km2		 Population
Census 2010		 Population
Census 2020		 Admin
centre		 No. of
villages
Sulbesi Barat West Sulabesi 255.02 4,707 5,585 Kabau Darat 6
Sulabesi Selatan South Sulabesi 284.00 4,298 5,545 Fuata 5
Sanana 157.36 25,183 33,994 Waihama 11
Sulabesi Tengah Central Sulabesi 161.31 5,929 7,250 Waiboga 7
Sulabesi Timur East Sulabesi 93.71 3,100 4,350 Baleha 6
Sanana Utara North Sanana 244.78 5,675 7,622 Pohea 7
Sulabesi Island (total) 1,196.12 48,892 64,346 42
Mangoli Timur East Mangoli 395.87 4,301 5,613 Waitina 5
Mangoli Tengah Central Mangoli 373.83 6,381 7,644 Mangoli 9
Mangoli Utara Timur Northeast Mangoli 374.75 3,777 4,735 Waisakai 4
Mangoli Barat West Mangoli 236.29 7,084 7,198 Dofa 7
Mangoli Utara North Mangoli 431.94 10,115 9,373 Falabisahaya 8
Mangoli Selatan South Mangoli 329.80 4,665 5,173 Buya 5
Mangoli Island (total) 2,142.48 36,323 39,736 38

History[]

The Dutch built a fort on Sanana in 1652. Wallace visited the islands during an ornithological expedition in 1862.[5]

The Dutch era Fort De Verwachting in Sanana town as it looked in 1921

Economy[]

According to government data, Sula Islands Regency's food crops include vegetables, groundnuts, cassava, sweet potatoes, durian, mangosteen and mango. As of 2005 the area of agriculturally active land was 24743.56 hectares with production amounting to 33,608.62 tons per year. Taliabu-Sanana District is the main producer of cloves, nutmeg, cocoa, copra and other coconut products. Fishery production is very diverse with and estimated sustainable potential of 40,273.91 tonnes per year of which only 22.8 percent is currently exploited. Forestry is considered a potential industry with the natural forest-based Classification Map TGHK RTRWP suggesting a forest area of 471,951.53 hectares, but much of this is protected or hard to access, due to steep slopes and transportation logistics, and the islands' main plywood company, PT Barito Pacific Timber Group (in Falabisahaya, West Mangoli) has closed. Industrial activity is very limited. There is a gold mine in East Mangoli District (at Waitina and Kawata) and coal mines are located in the peninsula of West Sulabesi District, East Taliabu and Sub Sanana (Wai Village Ipa). Reserves of coal are estimated around 10.4 million tonnes.

Tourism[]

The Indonesian Ministry of Tourism (Kemenpar) is ready to support the promotion of tourism destination potential on Sula Islands. Demographically located between the crossroads of Wakatobi and Raja Ampat tourist areas, it is ideally developed as marine tourism and special interest tourism for diving enthusiasts.

One of the support is Maksaira Festival at Wai Ipa Beach to Bajo Village Beach. On 2018 the festival as a cultural and marine tourism attraction event has entered the third year and will be listed as MURI record breaking for the largest grouper fishing participant targeted by 3000 participants in 2018, where year 2017 followed by 1700 participants.[6]

Fauna[]

The following species are native to the Sula Islands:

Introduced species include:

References[]

  1. ^ Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
  2. ^ Goodall, George (Editor)(1943) Philips' International Atlas London, George Philip and Son map 'East Indies' pp.91-92
  3. ^ Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
  4. ^ Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
  5. ^ Wallace, Alfred Russel (1862). "2. List of Birds from the Sula Islands (east of Celebes), with Descriptions of the New Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 30: 333–346. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1862.tb06537.x.
  6. ^ "Government Supports Tourism Promotion in Sula Islands". Lelemuku.com. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  7. ^ "More Indonesian bird species nearing extinction".

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