Kapuas Regency

Kapuas Regency is one of the thirteen regencies which divide Central Kalimantan Province, on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia. It formerly covered a wider area, but on 10 April 2002 two further regencies were cut out of its western districts, and the residual area is now 17,070.39 km.² Its population was 329,646 at the 2010 Census and 410,446 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 425,186. The administrative centre is the town of Kuala Kapuas, which includes 8 of the regency's 15 urban kelurahan, and had 72,382 inhabitants in mid 2023.

Geography

The total area of Kapuas Regency is 17,070.39 square km, delineated into ebbtide and non-ebbtide areas. It adjoins Gunung Mas Regency, the Java Sea, Barito Selatan Regency and Kalimantan Selatan Province, and Pulang Pisau Regency, to the north, south, east and west, respectively.
The north is marked by hills and mountains up to 500 metres above sea level, while the south is coastal and marshy, ebb-tidal and vulnerable to flooding. Rivers in Kapuas Regency are the Kapuas and Kapuas Murung, 600 and 66.38 km in length, respectively. There are four canals: Anjir Serapat and Anjir Tamban, each connecting Kuala Kapuas with Banjarmasin, running through Kalimantan Tengah and Kalimantan Selatan ; the Anjir Kalampan, connecting Mandomai, the capital of Kapuas Barat district, with Pulang Pisau Regency; and the Anjir Basarang, connecting Kuala Kapuas with Pulang Pisau.

Administration

In 2009 there were 204 villages. These were categorised as 44 traditional, 61 transitional and 59 development villages, 6 isolated villages/wards and 52 poor villages/wards. In 2009, there were 190 desa heads, 160 desa secretaries, 950 desa staff, 14 kelurahan heads and 14 kelurahan secretaries. In 2023 there were 231 villages, comprising 214 rural desa and 17 urban kelurahan.

Administrative districts

Kapuas Regency consists of seventeen districts, tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 Census and from the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as of mid 2023. The 2020 Census figures are rounded to the nearest 100 people. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district, and their postal codes.

Kode Wilayah	Name of District	Area in km²	Pop'n Census 2010	Pop'n Census 2020	Pop'n Estimate mid 2023	Admin centre	No. of villages	Post codes
62.03.04	Kapuas Kuala	401.02	18,763	22,016	22,533	Lupak Dalam	13	73583
62.03.13	Tamban Catur	90.69	14,592	16,806	17,108	Tamban Baru Tengah	10	73582
62.03.03	Kapuas Timur	184.68	23,535	29,964	31,403	Anjir Serapat Baru	7	73581
62.03.01	Selat	70.61	56,902	69,813	72,382	Selat Dalam	10	73511 - 73516
62.03.17	Bataguh	413.56	33,747	42,243	44,054	Pulau Kupang	15	73516
62.03.08	Basarang	221.14	18,073	23,601	24,917	Basarang	14	73564
62.03.02	Kapuas Hilir	82.11	13,036	14,592	14,732	Barimba	8	73521-73525
62.03.06	Pulau Petak	185.04	18,873	22,997	23,796	Sei Tatas	12	73592
62.03.07	Kapuas Murung	444.73	24,589	28,397	28,930	Palingkau Baru	23	73594
62.03.16	Dadahup	602.91	11,253	13,514	13,925	Dadahup	13	73593
62.03.05	Kapuas Barat	428.88	18,412	21,939	22,555	Mandomai	12	73552
62.03.09	Mantangai	6,340.71	35,500	45,297	47,502	Mantangai Tengah	38	73553
62.03.10	Timpah	1,915.68	9,548	12,010	12,543	Timpah	9	73554
62.03.11	Kapuas Tengah	1,961.80	14,009	18,178	19,156	Pulon	13	73555
62.03.14	Pasak Talawang	969.47	5,920	10,707	10,842	Jangkang	10	73557
62.03.12	Kapuas Hulu	1,193.57	7,546	11,675	11,823	Sei Hanyu	14	74581
62.03.15	Mandau Talawang	1,563.78	5,348	6,697	6,985	Sei Pinang	10	73556
	Totals	17,070.39	329,646	410,446	425,186	Kuala Kapuas	231

Notes: includes the offshore island of Pulau Roko. comprising 8 kelurahan and 2 desa.
including one kelurahan. comprising 5 kelurahan and 3 desa.
includes 2 kelurahan. including one kelurahan.

Climate

Kapuas Kuala, the seat of the regency, has a tropical rainforest climate with heavy rainfall in all months except July and August.

Population

The 2010 census recorded 329,646 people, including 167,937 males and 161,503 females. The 2020 Census total rose to 410,446, and the population was 423,210 in mid 2022. The 2020 population density was 27.36 people/km2, ranging from a high of 624.66 in Selat to only 5.07 people/km2 in Mandau Talawang.

Demographics

Religion as of 2018:

Muslim 77.71%
Protestant 12.15%
Hindu 9.35%
Roman Catholic 0.77%
Buddhist 0.01%
Confucian 0.00%

Social

Education is a development sector given priority by government, with an ultimate aim of improving the quality of human resources in Indonesia. There were 147 kindergartens in the regency, with 390 teachers and 4,181 students in 2009. In 2010, there were 390 Primary schools, with 2,736 teachers and 40,714 students, yielding student:teacher ratio of about 14.88. There were 86 Junior High schools, with 1,085 teachers, 9,667 students and 465 classrooms; 25 Senior High schools, with 636 teachers and 5,886 students.
The region had only 38 doctors in 2010, resulting in a service ratio of 8,669.