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Berau Regency

Berau Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Berau, Berau: Barrau) is the most northern of the seven regencies in East Kalimantan province in Indonesia. The capital is the town of Tanjung Redeb. The regency has an area of 36,962.37 km and had a population of 179,079 at the 2010 census and 248,035 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 280,998.

Berau was formerly the name of a local sultanate that existed during the Dutch colonial period. In the early 19th century, it was divided into two separate sultanates: Gunung Tabur and Sambaliung.

Administrative districts

Berau Regency is divided into thirteen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. The table also includes the location of the district headquarters, the number of administrative villages in each district (a total of 100 rural desa and 10 urban kelurahan), and of offshore islands in each district, and its postal codes.

Kode Wilayah	Name of District (kecamatan)	Area in km	Pop'n census 2010	Pop'n census 2020	Pop'n Estimate mid 2023	Admin centre	No. of villages	No. of islands	Post codes
64.03.01	Kelay	6,556.54	4,493	8,958	7,255	Sido Bangen	14	-	77362
64.03.02	Talisayan	1,621.57	10,061	14,614	17,020	Talisayan	10	1	77375
64.03.10	Tabalar	1,837.34	5,151	6,843	7,917	Tubaan	6	2	77374
64.03.07	Pulau Derawan	4,423.99	8,372	11,341	14,399	Tanjung Batu	5	12	77380
64.03.08	Biduk-Biduk	2,429.97	5,342	6,609	7,733	Biduk-Biduk	6	6	77373
64.03.11	Maratua	5,616.26	3,076	3,664	3,881	Maratua Teluk Harapan	4	25	77381
64.03.03	Sambaliung	2,163.37	24,174	36,784	44,532	Sambaliung	14	-	77371
63.03.04	Segah	5,241.29	8,396	14,368	17,942	Tepian Buah	13	-	77361
64.03.05	Tanjung Redeb	24.42	62,725	71,231	74,976	Tanjung Redeb	6	-	77315
64.03.06	Gunung Tabur	1,963.32	14,938	25,012	31,394	Gunung Tabur	11	15	77352
64.03.09	Teluk Bayur (Bayur Bay)	316.98	20,596	31,135	34,960	Teluk Bayur	6	-	77352
64.03.12	Batu Putih	3,575.30	6,691	8,840	9,519	Batu Putih	7	5	77373
64.03.13	Biatan	1,192.03	5,064	8,636	9,470	Biatan Lempake	8	-	77372
	Totals	36,962.37	53,671	248,035	280,998	Tanjung Redeb	110	66

Notes: (a) while the name of this district literally means "Derawan Island", in practice the district includes a dozen large islands (Badakbadak, Bingkar, Derawan,
Guntung, Labulabu, Lalawan, Manambula, Panjang, Samama, Sangalaki, Tempurung and Tidung) together with part of the 'mainland' of Kalimantan.
(b) includes one kelurahan - the town of Sambaliung. (c) all six are kelurahan - Bugis, Gayam, Gunung Panjang, Karang Ambun, Sungai Bedungun and Tanjung Redeb.
(d) except the towns of Gunung Panjang (with a post code of 77311) and Bugis (with a post code of 77312.
(e) includes one kelurahan - the town of Gunung Tabur. (f) includes two kelurahan - the towns of Teluk Bayur and Rinding.
(g) except the towns of Rinding (with a post code of 77313) and Teluk Bayur and the village of Tumbit Melayu (with a post code of 77315).
(h) except the villages (desa) of Tembudan, Kayu Indah and Sumber Agung (all with a post code of 77372).

Berau Marine Conservation Area

Konservasi Kawasan Laut (KKL) Berau (or "Berau Marine Conservation Area") was formed in 2005 and has an area of 1.321 million hectares, which includes Pulau Panjang (Long Island), Karangtigau Cape, and Baliktaba Reef. The area has the second highest coral reef biodiversity in Indonesia after Raja Ampat Islands and third highest in the world. The ecosystem covers coral reef, mangrove forest and sea grass.

Literary significance

The novelist Joseph Conrad made four visits to Berau, stopping at Tanjung Redeb, while employed as the first mate of the merchant vessel S.S. Vidar in 1887–1888. The geographical setting and the lives of the small number of European traders based in Berau made a profound impression on him, and the setting for three of his novels (Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands and the second part of Lord Jim) is loosely based on Berau. Conrad sometimes refers to the Berau river as Pantai ("beach") and uses the fictional name Sambir to refer to Tanjung Redeb.

References

^ Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Kabupaten Berau Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6405)
^ "Kabupaten Berau website". Government of Indonesia. Archived from the original on 2 August 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
^ Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
^ Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
^ "Indonesian Traditional States II". World Statesmen.org. Cahoon, Ben. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
^ "Melindungi Keragaman Hayati Terumbu Karang Tertinggi Ketiga di Dunia KKL Berau". 4 February 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
^ Sherry, Norman (1966). Conrad's Eastern World. Cambridge: University Press.