East Ogan Komering Ulu Regency is a regency of South Sumatra Province,

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. It covers an area of 3,370 km² and had a population of 609,982 at the 2010 Census and 649,853 at the 2020 Census. The regency seat is the town of Martapura. It borders

Ogan Ilir Regency Ogan Ilir Regency (abbreviation OI) is a regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. It takes its name from the main river which stream that area, Ogan River. And the name ''Ilir'' means downstream. Indralaya is the regency seat. The regency bo ...

to the north, Ogan Komering Ulu Regency to the west,

Ogan Komering Ilir Regency Ogan Komering Ilir Regency (abbreviation OKI) is a regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. It takes its name from the Ogan River and the Komering River, which are the two main rivers that drain the area. The name ''Ilir'' means downstream (t ...

in the east and

Lampung Province Lampung (Lampung: ), officially the Province of Lampung ( id, Provinsi Lampung) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of Bengkulu to the northwest, and a ...

and

South Ogan Komering Ulu Regency South Ogan Komering Ulu Regency is a regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 5,493.94 km2, and had a population of 318,428 at the 2010 Census and 408,981 at the 2020 Census. The administrative centre is the town of ...

in the south.

Administrative districts

This Regency is administratively composed of twenty

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

(''kecamatan''), comprising 191 villages. Their areas (in km²) and their 2010 and 2020 Census populations are listed below, together with the locations at the district administrative centres:

Economy

The regency is one of the major rice producing areas of South Sumatra, mainly concentrated in the Belitang District, Buay Madang District, Cempaka District and Martapura Districts with a large-scale irrigation scheme covering some 120,000 hectares. Other crops include

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and ...

coffee Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world. S ...

black pepper Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a peppercorn, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diame ...

coconut The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the ...

palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced from ...

and fruits such as orange,

durian The durian (, ) is the edible fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus ''Durio''. There are 30 recognised ''Durio'' species, at least nine of which produce edible fruit. ''Durio zibethinus'', native to Borneo and Sumatra, is the onl ...

duku ''Lansium parasiticum'', commonly known as langsat (), lanzones (), or longkong in English; duku in Indonesian or dokong in Terengganu Malay, is a species of tree in the Mahogany family with commercially cultivated edible fruits. The species ...

rambutan Rambutan (; taxonomic name: ''Nephelium lappaceum'') is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia. It is closely related to s ...

and

banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...

Notable people

Former Constitutional Court judge

Ahmad Natabaya Ahmad Natabaya, also known as HAS Natabaya, is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. He completed his Bachelor of Law degree at Sriwijaya University in Palembang in 1967, his master's degree at Indiana University Robert H. McKin ...

was born in the regency in the village of Cempaka.Prof. H Ahmad Syarifuddin Natabaya, SH, LLM
Sriwijaya University website, 6 December 2008. Accessed 18 October 2016.

References

Regencies of South Sumatra {{SSumatra-geo-stub