The land area of the Regency is 971.72 km2, and it had a population of 852,521 in the 2010 Census[2] and 997,869 in the 2020 Census,[3] while the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 1,037,068 - comprising 526,035 males and 511,033 females[1] - for a density of 1,067.2 people per km2.[4] The west of the regency includes the huge reservoir of the Waduk Jatiluhur (which forms a freshwater lake with a surface area of 83 km2), west of Purwakarta town and 70 km from Jakarta, created by the Jatiluhur Dam on the Tarum River.
Administrative districts
The Purwakarta Regency is divided into seventeen districts (kecamatan), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census[2] and 2020 Census,[3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.[1] The table also gives the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 183 rural desa and 9 urban kelurahan), and its post code.
Note: (a) Sukasari District lies to the west and north of the vast Waduk Jatiluhur Reservoir, which largely separates it from the rest of the regency. (b) comprising the 9 kelurahan (Cipaisan, Ciseureuh, Purwamekar, Munjuljaya, Nagrikaler, Nagrikidul, Nagritengah, Sindangkasih and Tegalmunjul), plus one desa.
The 192 villages comprise 183 classed as rural desa and 9 classed as urban kelurahan - the latter are 9 of the 10 villages in Purwakarta (town) District.
The Ministry of Religion has awarded a Harmoni Award in 2016 to Purwakarta Regency for religion tolerance in this area. It is one of the only ten such awards across Indonesia. West Java Province is categorized by the Setara Institute as the best for tolerance in Indonesia, although West Java Province itself has not received an award.[5]
References
^ abcBadan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Kabupaten Purwakarta Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.3214)
