Kisaran is a city in the

North Sumatra North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and ...

province of

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. Kisaran is the administrative capital of

Asahan Regency Asahan Regency is a regency in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Following the creation of the new Batubara Regency (which was carved out of Asahan Regency on 15 June 2007), the regency now covers an area of 3,702.7 square kilometres; it had a population o ...

. Kisaran is divided into two administrative districts (''kecamatan'') - West Kisaran District and East Kisaran District. Kisaran is situated on the Trans-Sumatra Highway, and is also located in the path of trains of northern Sumatra. The previous status of Kisaran was an administrative city, which was then abolished and divided into two districts in 2003 because it did not meet the increasing requirements of the autonomous region.

Government

Kisaran has an area of 62.98 km² , and is divided into two districts (East Kisaran, or ''Kisaran Timur'', and West Kisaran, or ''Kisaran Barat''). These are in turn divided into 25 Urban Villages (''kelurahan''), listed below with their populations at the 2020 Census:

Demographics

Religion

Based on data from BPS in 2017, 82.42 percent of the population of Kisaran embraced

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. The rest are

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and a small number of

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Ethnic

BPS data of 2017 noted that the plurality of the population in Kisaran is Javanese (38.01%), followed by

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(25.69%),

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, ...

23.88%,

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7.27%, and other ethnic groups (5.15%)."Kecamatan Kisaran Timur Dalam Angka 2017"
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Transportation

*Kisaran Railways Station *Motorcycle Rickshaws * Online Motorbike Taxi

Notable people

Sisworo Gautama Putra Sisworo Gautama Putra (May 26, 1938 – January 5, 1993) was an Indonesian film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. Biography Born in Kisaran in North Sumatra, Sisworo trained as a director in 1961. In 19 ...

(Art Figures of Indonesia) * Sindoedarmo Sudjojono (Art Figures of Indonesia)

References

Populated places in North Sumatra Regency seats of North Sumatra
Asahan Official siteCentral Bureau of Statistics of Asahan RegencyEast Kisaran District Official SiteWest Kisaran District Official Site
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