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 JAYA
RAYA JAKARTA SPECIAL PROVINCE
Short Note on Government Structure
The location of Jakarta city is on west Java island. When Indonesia
got the independence in 1945, west Java divided into 2 provinces
that were the province of West Java with the capital city
of Bandung, and the city province of Jakarta. Since Jakarta
has been developing into the biggest city in Indonesia beside
Jakarta as the center of Indonesia government the province
of Jakarta has been given an autonomy status called Jakarta
Special Province. Special province refers to the degree of
autonomy that is handled by the government of the province
do not totally become the assignment of central government.
Since the independence of Indonesia we know 3 special provinces
in Indonesia those are Aceh province due to their specific
character of Islamic culture and Yogyakarta due to it's rich
and great value of their culture as the historic center of
Javanese culture. Today West Java has been divided into 3
provinces with the last separated from West Java is the province
of Banten, which having an important history in the development
of West Java and Jakarta itself. During 15th century West
Java under the flourishing kingdom of Sunda or often called
Pajajaran, Banten was the second important port of the kingdom
after Kalapa ( now Jakarta ).
Location
Total area of Jakarta Special Province is 650 square kms with
the position from 106o22'42'' to 106o58'18''
East and from -5o19;12'' to -5o25'54''
South. The position of the land from the sea level is from
0 meter at Tanjung Priok Sea Port area to 50 meters above
sea level, especially high place at south Jakarta. The more
south the more higher the land altitude
Climate of Jakarta
akarta is a tropical area with average yearly temperature
is 20oC and moisture level between 80 - 90%. Wind
blowing is strongly influenced by the seasonal circle of West
and East seasons. West season is when the sun is located south
of equator, between November and April while East season is
when the sun is at the northern equator between May and October.
Daily temperature of Jakarta is strongly influenced by the
Java sea. Yearly rain fall is 2.000 mm, with the peak of wet
season during January and the driest during September. The
area of Jakarta consist of Pleistocene sediment which is 50
m under land surface. At the southern area of Jakarta consist
of alluvial layer. This alluvial layer experience abrasion
which is transported to northern area lowland covered the
older layer. This older stratum position is around 10 to 25
m depth. The altitude of Jakarta is from 0 to 10 m above sea
level. The area such as Tanjung Priok, now one of sea port
of Jakarta is at the same level with the sea surface. The
size of Jakarta area is 650 square kms or 65.000 hectares,
located from 106o22'42'' east to 106o58'18''
east and 5o19'12'' south to 6o23'54''
south.
Government Structure
During 14th century was a small port called Sunda Kelapa which
is located on West Jakarta under the control of Hindu kingdom
of Pajajaran, now known as the land of Sunda with the capital
city of Bandung. Pajajaran kingdom was the biggest kingdom
on the on the west of Java island, while Majapahit was the
biggest kingdom on east Java at the moment. In 1527 the Islamic
kingdom of Demak took over Sunda Kelapa from Pajajaran and
the Portuguese and changed the name into Jayakarta. This date
is become the birth day of Jakarta. On 4 March 1621 the Dutch
Colonization formed city administration and renamed the city
into Stad Batavia. On 1 April 1955 changed into Gemeente Batavia,
and 8 Janaury 1935 changed into Stad Gemeente Batavia an indication
that the status of Jakarta had been changed from a small port
into an administrative city. Under the occupation of Japanese
in 8 August 1942 the name of Batavia again changed into Jakarta
or in Japanese called Jakarta Toku Betshu Shi in Indonesia
means Jakarta Special City. After the independence of Indonesia,
Jakarta was decided as the center of government administration
for the whole Indonesian regions or provinces. Today Jakarta
special provinces divided into 6 second level of governments
under the province. The province is also called first level
government. Those 6 second level of Jakarta government include:
North Jakarta municipality, West Jakarta municipality, South
Jakarta municipality, East Jakarta municipality, Central Jakarta
municipality and the Kabupaten of Pulau Seribu ( Thousand Islands ).
The second level government is divided further into
smaller administrative area called Kecamatan government
which reports directly to the head of the second level
government. In Jakarta exist 43 Kecamatan governments.
Each Kecamatan is divided again into smaller unit of
administrative government called Kelurahan. In total
Jakarta records 265 Kelurahans. The head of the province
is called Gubernur, the head of the second level government
of municipality is called Wali Kota ( Meyer ), and the
head of the Kabupaten is called Bupati. White the head
of Kecamatan is called Camat, and the head of the Kelurahan
is called Lurah. The people in Jakarta or Jakarta resident
directly connected with the Lurah for any legal or civil
service Being granted an autonomy status Jakarta has
a department or the local planning. This bureau is called
The Bureau of Regional Development Planning, in Indonesian
Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Daerah ( BAPPEDA ). This
bureau has the assignment for the integrated planning
of the area from physical to funding. Every one put
a great hope to make their standard of living growing
better by migrating seasonally to the city of Jakarta,
although it is strong awearness that most of the migrators
from the other part of Java have no enough skill to
live in Jakarta. This is the main source of the complex
situation of the city and surrounding |
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