Kuala Kencana
- The History
- Kuala Kencana is the first city in (Papua) West Papua New Guinea with underground utilities, centralized water distribution, and sewage collection and treatment. Kuala Kencana is the finest town ever built in West Papua New Guinea. The town is managed by P.T Freeport the giant copper and gold company in the country (Indonesia). More
- The Landscape
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The main island of New Guinea is the second largest in the world after Greenland. It was formed over thousands of millennia as the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates collided.
The main island is shared by two countries: West Papua and Papua New Guinea. West Papua is 26th province of the Republic of Indonesia, since 1969.
It has extremely high rainfall up to 11 metres in the central ranges and highly leached, infertile soils.
The environment of the West Papua very much dictates how and where people live, with a large proportion of the population traditionally living in the lowlands and along the major river systems where soils are more fertile and rainfall less intense.
West Papua is large, sparsely populated and isolated. It has an area of 410,660 km2, one fifth of the area of Papua New Guinea.
- The fact
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Full country name: West Papua (Indonesia)
Area: 410,660 km2
Population: 2,1 million
People: 65% Melanesian, 35% other parts of Indonesia
Language: Bahasa Indonesia, 253 tribal languages
Religion: 65% Protestan, 20% Catholic and 15% Muslim
Government: Effective law-making power is retained in Jakarta where Indonesia’s parliament retains control over revenue collection and distribution.
Head of State: Governor Jaap Salossa
Head of Government: Indonesia president
GDP: US$3.9 billion
GDP per capita: US$450
Major Industries: Copper, gas, gold, silver, copra crushing, palm oil processing, logging
Major Trading Partners: USA, Japan, China, Australia