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Pekanbaru is used to be known as "new market" because back then Pekanbaru was a huge market which is known among the surrounding areas. It was formerly known as "Senapelan", which comes from the word "Sena" which is the name of a tree that symbolises Pekanbaru because the tree is easy to spot because of its considerable height and the tree was ...
Pekanbaru is the capital of Riau province. 2. Pekanbaru, besides being the capital of the province, had also become an independent city. 3. Given the extent of Kampar Regency, moving the Capital to Bangkinang increased efficiency and improved the management of government services to the public. 4.
The term kota (city) has been implemented to substitute kotamadya since the post-Suharto era in Indonesia. [10] Kota is headed by a mayor (walikota), who is directly elected via elections to serve for a five-year term, which can be renewed for one further five-year term. Each kota is divided further into districts, more commonly known as kecamatan.
The Lake Sentarum National Park (Indonesian: Taman Nasional Danau Sentarum) is a national park protecting one of the world's most biodiverse lake systems, [2] located in the heart of Borneo Island, Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. It lies in the upper Kapuas River tectonic basin some 700 kilometres upstream from the delta.
Kotabaru Regency is one of the eleven regencies in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan.It consists of two parts; the smaller (2,375.44 km 2) but more populated insular part comprises Laut Island ("Sea Island"), the largest island off the coast of Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), together with the smaller Sebuku Island off Laut Island's east coast and other even smaller islands nearby ...
Batam, officially the City of Batam (Indonesian: Kota Batam, not to be confused with Batam Kota, a district within this city), is the largest city in the Indonesian province of Riau Islands. The city administrative area covers three main islands of Batam, Rempang and Galang (collectively called Barelang ), as well as Bulang to the west and ...
Bengkalis (Kota Bengkalis) is a large town and the seat (capital) of Bengkalis Regency. [1] in the Riau province of Indonesia It is located on the south coast of Bengkalis Island. The town had a population of 83,085 in 2021. Bengkalis has a hot and humid equatorial/tropical climate.
Caltex staff (mostly American) traveled to Rumbai, Minas and Duri by plane from Jakarta or Singapore to Pekanbaru airport and then by boat across to Rumbai. The oil camp of Rumbai was a completely self-contained mostly expatriate community with offices, homes, school, hospital, water treatment, diesel generators, commissary, country club ...