Mamasa Regency ( id, Kabupaten Mamasa) is one of the six regencies that make up the

West Sulawesi West Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the western side of Sulawesi island. It covers an area of 16,787.18 km2, and its capital is Mamuju. The 2010 Census recorded a population of 1,158,651, while ...

Province, Indonesia, on the island of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

. It covers a land area of 3,005.88 km². The population was 140,082 at the 2010 Census and 163,383 at the 2020 Census. Its capital is the town of Mamasa. The

Mamasa people The Mamasa ( Mamasa: ''To Mamasa'') is a community indigenous people residing in Mamasa Regency, West Sulawesi. The Mamasa community is known in districts in Mamasa Regency. The Mamasa people are part of the Toraja sub-people. Mamasa language is ...

- which is a sub-group of the Toraja people - form the most common ethnic group. Mamasa Regency is located at an altitude of 600-2,000 meters above sea level.

History

Mamasa Regency used to be part of Polewali Mamasa Regency, a former Indonesian

Regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

that used to be part of

South Sulawesi South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sula ...

but later became part of

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

. In 2002, the regency was split into two smaller regencies:

Polewali Mandar Regency Polewali Mandar is one of the five regencies in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It borders on the regencies of Mamasa Regency, Mamasa in the North, Majene Regency, Majene in the West and Pinrang Regency, Pinrang regency of South Sulawesi in ...

which is located on the sea-side region, and Mamasa Regency on the mountain area.

Polewali Mandar Polewali Mandar is one of the five regencies in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It borders on the regencies of Mamasa in the North, Majene in the West and Pinrang regency of South Sulawesi in the East. It covers an area of 2,074.76 km2 an ...

is mainly inhabited by the Mandar ethnic group, while Mamasa is home to the Mamasa people, who are related to the ethnic group Mamasa.

Sumarorong Airport

The airport developed from an airstrip to a 700-meter runway in 2012 and a predicted finish in 2013 with a 1,500-meter runway to facilitate wide-body aircraft. The airport ceased operations in 2016 due to a lack of passengers, but in November 2020 the airport was re-opened again for flights.

Demographics

Population

The total population of this regency in 2020 was 163,383 people, of which men were 83,928 and women were 79,455. The district is divided into 17 districts, and sub-divided into 13 urban villages ('' kelurahan'') and 181 rural

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

(''desa''). The original inhabitants of Mamasa Regency are the

, which is a sub-group of the Toraja people. Because the province of West Sulawesi was a division of the province of

, some of the indigenous people of South Sulawesi also live in West Sulawesi, and their largest ethnic groups are the Bugis and

Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

. There are also other immigrant ethnic groups such as the Javanese and Balinese.

Religion

Mamasa Regency has a diversity of ethnicities, religions, races and customs (SARA). Based on data from Central Statistics Agency, Mamasa Regency records data on religious diversity. The percentage of religions in the regency is based on data from the Ministry of Home Affairs 2020, namely 77.83% of the adherents of the Christian religion, where Protestant comprise 74.78% and Catholic 3.05%. Then comes the adherents of the

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

ic religion who form as much as 17.30%, then

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

as much as 1.53%, while about 3.34% of the population of Mamasa still adhere to the belief of Mappurondo. For houses of worship, there are 646 Protestant churches, 49 Catholic churches, 129 mosques, 19 prayer rooms, and 26

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buildings.

Administration

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The regency is divided into seventeen districts (''kecamatan''), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres.

Climate

Mamasa has a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af) that closely borders a

subtropical highland climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate, is the humid temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool summers and mild winters ...

(Cfb) with moderate rainfall in August and September and heavy rainfall in the remaining months.

References

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