COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Studioportret van Gusti Jilantik vorst van Buleleng met secretaris

Buleleng ( ban, ᬓᬩᬸᬧᬢᬾᬦ᭄ᬩᬸᬮᭂᬮᭂᬂ, Kabupatén Buléléng) is a

regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

(''kabupaten'') of Bali,

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. It has an area of 1,365.88 km² and population of 624,125 at the 2010 census and 791,910 at the 2020 census. Its regency seat is at the town of

Singaraja Singaraja is a port town in northern Bali, Indonesia, which serves as the seat of Buleleng Regency. The name is Indonesian for "Lion King" (from Tamil ''singam'' and ''raja''). It is just east of Lovina, and is also the centre of Buleleng Distric ...

. Buleleng was founded as a kingdom by

Gusti Panji Sakti Gusti Panji Sakti was King of the Kingdom of Buleleng, in northern Bali, Indonesia, from around 1660 to 1700. He is commemorated as an heroic ancestral figure who expanded the power of Buleleng to Blambangan on East Java East Java ( id, Jawa T ...

, who ruled c. 1660-c. 1700. He is commemorated as a heroic ancestor-figure who expanded the power of Buleleng to

Blambangan The Blambangan Kingdom was the last Javanese Hindu kingdom that flourished between the 13th and 18th centuries, based in the eastern corner of Java. The capital was at Banyuwangi. It had a long history of its own, developing contemporaneously ...

East Java East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...

. The kingdom was weakened during its successors, and fell under the suzerainty of the neighbouring Karangasem kingdom in the second half of the 18th century. It was headed by an autonomous branch of the Karangasem Dynasty in 1806–1849. The Dutch attacked Buleleng in 1846, 1848 and 1849, and defeated it on the last occasion. Buleleng was incorporated in the Dutch colonial system and lost its autonomy in 1882. In 1929 a descendant of Gusti Panji Sakti, the renowned scholar

Gusti Putu Jelantik Gusti may refer to: *Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher *Gusti Huber (1914–1993), Austrian theater and film actress *Gusti Ngurah Made Pemecutan (died 1810), King in Badung *Gusti Wolf (19 ...

, was appointed regent by the Dutch. He died in 1944, during the

Japanese occupation of Indonesia The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. It was one of the most crucial and important periods in modern Indonesian history. In Ma ...

. His son was a well-known novelist, Anak Agung Nyoman Panji Tisna. In 1947, Anak Agung Pandji Tisna surrendered the throne to his younger brother, Anak Agung Ngurah Ketut Djelantik, known as Meester Djelantik, until 1950. In 1949-50 Buleleng, like the rest of Bali, was incorporated in the unitary republic of

Administrative districts

The regency is divided into nine districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 census and the 2020 census. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district and its postal codes. The administrative centres of each district have the same name as the district itself, except for the Buleleng District (of which the centre is

, which also serves as the administrative capital of the whole regency) and Sawan District (of which the centre is Sangsit). Gerokgak District includes the small offshore island of Pulau Menjangan Kecil.

Airports

Lt.Col. Wisnu Airfield Lieutenant Colonel Wisnu Airfield ( id, Lapangan Terbang Letnan Kolonel Wisnu) also referred to as Buleleng Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Buleleng) is located in Sumberkima, Buleleng Regency, Bali, Indonesia. Construction was funded by the local go ...

is located in the

Sumberkima Sumberkima Village ( Indonesian: Desa Sumberkima) is a small settlement, located in west Buleleng Regency, in the north-west corner of Bali island, a Province of the Indonesian archipelago. Economy Sumberkima settlement’s economy is heavil ...

village. Research of a new airport was completed in 2017, due to the congestion of

Ngurah Rai International Airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional I Gusti Ngurah Rai) , is the main airport in Bali, located 13 km south of Denpasar. Ngurah Rai is the second busiest airport in Indonesia after Soekarno–Hatta I ...

. The new two-runway airport will be built in the east part of Buleleng Regency and will be connected by railway to the existing airport. Kubutambahan, 15 kilometers east of Singaraja, was decided to be the new airport site over two other candidates, Sangsit and Gerokgak, after taking into account geographical conditions, wind speed, wind direction, and other factors.

Pearl producers

Many big pearl producers have developed 130.9 hectares in Gerokgak village as an area for pearl breeding and world-class pearl productions. It will enlarge to 250 hectares swath of water stretching from Gerokgak to Kubutambahan.

Gallery

KITLV 4388 - Isidore van Kinsbergen - Two warriors, Boeleleng - 1865.tif, Two warriors in Buleleng, 1865 KITLV 4393 - Isidore van Kinsbergen - Balinese and a Papuan slave Rajah of Boeleleng - 1865.tif, Balinese and Papuan slaves of the Rajah of Buleleng, 1865 Pura Beji Sangsit - panoramio

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