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Cianjur () is a town and district in the

West Java West Java (, ) is an Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten and the country's capital region of Jakarta to t ...

province of

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, and is the

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Cianjur Regency Cianjur Regency is a Regency (Indonesia), regency ''(kabupaten)'' of West Java, Indonesia. The area of the regency is 3,503.75 km2 and its population at the 2010 Census was 2,171,281;Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. the 2020 Census produ ...

. The district of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between

Jakarta Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and ...

(120 km to the northwest) and

Bandung Bandung is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, the city is the List of Indonesian cities by population, fourth-most populous city and fourth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabay ...

(60 km to the east). The population was 158,125 at the 2010 Census and 173,265 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 176,368.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2023. Because of its location, some of Cianjur's residents commute to work in Bandung. The road on which Cianjur is located used to be the main (extremely busy) road from

but was in effect replaced as the main road link between these two main cities when the Jakarta-Bandung tollroad was fully completed in 2005. However, due to its low traffic, Cianjur returned as one of the alternative routes for travellers from Jakarta and Bandung.

History

Cianjur was founded in 1677, with the first head of the town being R. A. Wiratanudatar I, entitled Dalem Cikundul, as the descendant from the old Sundanese city of Pajajaran. By 2007 the city government asked female municipal employees to wear ''jilbab'' (

hijab Hijab (, ) refers to head coverings worn by Women in Islam, Muslim women. Similar to the mitpaḥat/tichel or Snood (headgear), snood worn by religious married Jewish women, certain Christian head covering, headcoverings worn by some Christian w ...

). It also placed road signs encouraging women to wear ''jilbab''. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck offshore

on September 2, 2009, killing 21 people in Cianjur alone. Another 5.6 magnitude earthquake occurred on November 21, 2022, killing 331 and injuring 7,729 others.

Administrative divisions

Cianjur district is divided into 11 administrative villages which are as follows: *Babakankaret *Bojongherang *Limbangansari *Mekarsari *Muka *Nagrak *Pamoyanan *Sawahgede *Sayang *Solokpandan *Sukamaju

Economy

The district mainly produces home and micro Industrial products, especially

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s, woven,

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, and

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Transportation

After being dormant for about 2 years, the train called ''Siliwangi'' between

Sukabumi Sukabumi () is a landlocked city surrounded by the Sukabumi Regency, regency of the same name (within which it is an enclave and exclave, enclave) in the southern foothills of Mount Gede, in West Java, Indonesia, about south of the national ca ...

and Cianjur was reactivated on 8 February 2014. It is faster than the buses which are usually trapped in traffic jams, but the cost of a train ticket is double that of using buses. Alam adalah pelindung bumi

Climate

Cianjur has a

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(Af) with moderate rainfall from June to September and heavy rainfall from October to May.

Notable residents

* Djumhana Wiriaatmadja (1904–1975) politician and diplomat * Mohammad Enoch (1893–1965) engineer and politician * Robi Darwis (b. 2003) footballer * Rd Mochtar (b. 1918) actor * Nyonya The Tiang Ek, 1920s–30s writer and translator * Utuy Tatang Sontani (1920–1979) writer and university lecturer

References

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