EAST KALIMANTAN PROVINCE PROFILE
- NAME : East Kalimantan
- CAPITAL : Samarinda
- AREA : 129,066.64 km2
- POPULATION : 3,508,012 (density 27/km2)
- Ethnicity : Javanese (29.55%), Banjar (13.94%), Bugis (18.26%), Dayak (9.91%), Kutai (9.21%), Toraja (1.16%), Sundanese (1.59%), Madurese (1.24%), Chinese (1.16%), other (13.18%).
- Religions : Moslem (85.57%), Christian (9.41%), Catholic (4.17%), Buddhist (0.49%), Hindu (0.28%), Konghucu (0.05%), Kaharingan (0.03%)
- DETAILS OF TOP OFFICIALS
- Governor : Dr. Ir. H. Isran Noor, M.Si
- Vice Governor : H. Hadi Mulyadi, S.Si, M.Si
More than half of the population engages in agriculture, with manufacturing activities dominated by extractive industries such as logging and mining. East Kalimantan is one of Indonesia’s most attractive regions for both local and foreign investment with a resource boom in the early 21st century. Coal and gold mining as well as the oil and natural gas extraction with oil refineries increased the local economy.
Major cities in East Kalimantan are Samarinda and Balikpapan. The population of the interior of East Kalimantan consists largely of various Dayak groups (a term generally applied to non-Muslim indigenous peoples who trace their ancestry to the interior regions of Borneo). Among the most prominent of these peoples are the Kenyah and the Kayan. The coastal regions are populated by peoples of diverse ancestry, including local Kutai Malays, Bugis (from southern Celebes), Javanese (from the island of Java), Banjar (from South Kalimantan), and Chinese, among others.
- MAJOR AREAS OF INDUSTRY
- Cocoa
- Rubber
- Palm Oil
- Grouper fisheries
- Beef farming
