Kuala Pembuang (abbreviated: KLP; ) is the capital, administrative center, and economic center of

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. Initially, Kuala Pembuang was a sub-district (in the administrative division of the Seruyan Hilir

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

) before being divided into two sub-districts, namely Kuala Pembuang I and Kuala Pembuang II. Kuala Pembuang is known to be rich in natural resources and has beautiful natural scenery. Thus, this city has many places of interest to tourists. Even so, the development of this city is still constrained by limited funds.

Geography

Kuala Pembuang is located south of the Seruyan river (or Pembuang river). The city's coordinates are at 3.3874° South Latitude and 112°.5434 East Longitude. Administratively, this city is located in Seruyan Hilir District . This town is located to the southwest of Palangka Raya, the capital city of Central Kalimantan with the distance about ±370 km. The total area of this town is approximately 123.1 km² which makes it roughly 0.75% of the total area of

. Kuala Pembuang is located on the banks of Seruyan River and is very adjacent to the river's estuary into

Java Sea The Java Sea (, ) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South Ch ...

. This town is also situated on the lowlands of the southern coast of Central Kalimantan with the altitude being somewhere between 1 and 15 metres above sea level. As other towns and cities in

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, this town experiences

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(''Af'') with high amount of precipitation most of the year, constantly high humidity, and persistent warm-to-hot temperature.

History

Samudin

Several local oral traditions mention ''Datuk'' Samudin as the first person to occupy the area around Sungai Perlu and opened access to Kuala Pembuang and established settlements there. For the people of Seruyan Hilir, Samudin is a respected person and they regard him as an ancestor.

Sultanate of Banjar

Pembuang is one of the oldest settlements in Seruyan Regency, the name of this area has already been mentioned in the

Hikayat Banjar The Hikayat Banjar () is the chronicle of Banjarmasin, Indonesia. This text, also called the History of Lambung Mangkurat, contains the history of the kings of Banjar and of Kotawaringin in southeast and south Borneo respectively. The final pa ...

whose last part was written in 1663. The name of ''Pembuang'' was given by Prince Dipati Anta-Kasuma son of the 4th Sultan of Banjar Mustain Billah, because originally the place was going to be the capital of the kingdom to be founded by him, but then it was canceled ( means ''wasted''). Ras, Johannes Jacobus; ''

'' translated by Siti Hawa Salleh, Percetakan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Lot 1037, Mukim Perindustrian PKNS - Ampang/Hulu Kelang -

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Darul Ehsan,

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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

. In 1878,

Tahmidullah II of Banjar Tahmidullah II, (1727 – 19 April 1801) also known as Tamjidillah III, Sulaiman Saidullah I, and Sunan Nata Alam was the Sultan of Banjar who ruled from 1761 to 1801, succeeding his cousin, Muhammad of Banjar. His reign succeeded in maintaining ...

handed over Pembuang and its surroundings to the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( ; VOC ), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered company, chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by the States Ge ...

. This area was made an '' Onderdistrict'' of the

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under the name Pemboewan District. 1905, The Pemboewan government with its capital in Pembuang Hulu was moved to Kuala Pembuang, due to its strategic location on the south coast, especially for government, transportation and the economic activities at that time.

Under Seruyan Administration

Seruyan District Government in 1946. The Pemboewan government was changed to a sub-district with the name Seruyan sub-district with its capital city being Kuala Pembuang. In 2002, the Seruyan District Government was changed to Seruyan Regency with the capital city at Kuala Pembuang. Temporary Officer, Loper Anggus. In 2003, Darwan Ali was elected as the first regent of Seruyan Regency. He then carried out construction in the Seruyan Regency area, especially the capital, Kuala Pembuang.

Government

Kuala Pembuang is administratively divided into two sub-districts, namely Kuala Pembuang I and Kuala Pembuang II. The government of Kuala Pembuang rests on the Lurah who is appointed directly by the

Regent In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...

. The government in Kuala Pembuang is very unique because it is not regulated by a single government, but each Lurah manages his own ''

Kelurahan In Indonesia, village or subdistrict is the fourth-level subdivision and the smallest administrative division of Indonesia below a district, regency/city, and province. Similar administrative divisions outside of Indonesia include barangays in t ...

''. Kuala Pembuang, apart from being the

capital, is also the capital of the Seruyan Hilir District.

Economy

Most people of Kuala Pembuang work as

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

s. This is because the land in Kuala Pembuang is very large while the populated area is very small. Apart from being farmers, the Kuala Pembuang people also rely on the produce from the Sea and the Pembuang River, making

flatfish A flatfish is a member of the Ray-finned fish, ray-finned demersal fish Order (biology), suborder Pleuronectoidei, also called the Heterosomata. In many species, both eyes lie on one side of the head, one or the other migrating through or around ...

crackers (a typical food of the Seruyan Regency), and becoming workers. After Sudarsono's regency, Kuala Pembuang's economy began to shift to the

palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from o ...

industry, although there are still many changes that need to be made.

References

{{reflist Regency seats of Central Kalimantan Seruyan Regency