Overview
01Overview
East Kotawaringin Regency is one of the thirteen regencies which comprise the Central Kalimantan Province on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. It originally covered a much larger part of the province, having been split from a single Kotawaringin Regency on 26 June 1959 into separate regencies for East and West Kotawaringin, but on 10 April 2002 several districts in the west of the regency were split off to form the new Seruyan Regency, and several districts in the east of the regency were similarly split off to form the new Katingan Regency. The land area of the residual East Kotawaringin Regency is 15,543.82 km2, and its population was 374,175 at the 2010 Census, and 428,900 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2025 was 452,870 (comprising 233,500 males and 219,370 females). The town of Sampit is the capital of East Kotawaringin Regency.
History
Not yet available in English; shown in Indonesian.
01Sejarah
Menurut laporan Radermacher, kepala daerah Sampit (Kotawaringin Timur) pada 1780 adalah Kyai Ingabei Sudi Ratu. Pada 13 Agustus 1787, wilayah Sampit (Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur) sudah diserahkan Sultan Tahmidullah II kepada VOC Belanda, kemudian daerah ini berkembang menjadi sebuah Distrik yaitu Distrik Sampit.
Penguasa selanjutnya adalah Kiai ngabei Djaija Kesuma (1834), Djoeragan Brahim (1847), Kiai Oeda Mengala, dan Haji Abdol Rachman (1850), Tiedke - penguasa Eropa (1859).
Menurut Staatsblad van Nederlandisch Indië 1849, wilayah ini termasuk dalam zuid-ooster-afdeeling berdasarkan Bêsluit van den Minister van Staat, Gouverneur-Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indie, pada 27 Agustus 1849, No. 8 Pada tanggal 1 Mei 1859 pembukaan pelabuhan di Sampit. Pada 12 Agustus 1862, status pemerintahan sipil diberlakukan untuk daerah Sampit.
Geography
01Geography
The residual regency is essentially the catchment area of the Mentaya (Sampit) River. The large town of Sampit (the administrative centre of the regency) lies on the west bank of the river; its metropolitan area encompasses most of Mentawa Baru Ketapang District (excluding 5 rural desa in the south) and all of Baamang District.