Parepare is a city (''kota'') in

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 ...

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 ...

, located on the southwest coast 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 ...

, about north of the provincial capital of

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 ...

. A port town, it is one of the major population centers of the

Bugis The Bugis people (pronounced ), also known as Buginese, are an ethnicity—the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassar and Toraja), in the south-western province of Sulawe ...

people. The city had a population of 129,542 people at the 2010 Census and 151,454 at the 2020 Census.

Jusuf Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (; 25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh Vice Preside ...

, the third

President of Indonesia The President of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Presiden Republik Indonesia) is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Indonesia. The president leads the executive branch of the Indonesian government and is ...

, was born in Parepare.

History

In the early development of this plateau, there was just a thicket of bushes which had many holes on slightly sloping land, which grew wild irregularly, ranging from the northern (Cappa Edge) up to the route south from the city. As the time goes by, those bushes have now become the city of Parepare. At an early date, there were kingdoms located on Parepare - the kingdom of Suppa in the 14th century and Bacukiki Kingdom in the 15th century. The term "Parepare" originates from the sentence of the King of Gowa “Bajiki Ni Pare” which means “(Ports in this region) are good.” Since then, the name “Parepare” has referred to the port city. Parepare was subsequently visited by Malay people who came to trade into the region of Suppa. Seeing the strategic position of a harbour protected by a headland in the front side, the Dutch conquered this place at the first opportunity, and made it an important city in the territory of the central part of South Sulawesi. At the time of the Dutch East Indies, in Parepare, there was a Resident Assistant and a Controlur or Gezag Hebber as Head of Government (the Dutch East Indies), while the status of the region is named the “Afdeling Parepare” which included five "Onder Afdeling" for Barru, Sidenreng Rappang, Enrekang, Pinrang and Parepare. In each region, an Onder Afdeling Controlur was domiciled or a Gezag Hebber. Beside the Dutch East Indies government officials, the structure of the Dutch East Indies Government was also assisted by government officials and Bugis kings, namely Arung Barru in Barru, Addatuang Sidenreng in Sidenreng Rappang, Sporting Enrekang in Enrekang, Addatung Sawitto in Pinrang, while at Parepare there was Arung Mallusetasi. This governance structure, up to the outbreak of World War II, that was when the Dutch East Indies Government was overtaken around the year 1942.

Administration

Pare-Pare (city) is divided into four

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''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, and the number of administrative villages (urban ''kelurahan'' and rural ''desa'') in each district.

Climate

Parepare has a

tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ...

(Am) with moderate rainfall from June to October and heavy rainfall from November to May.

List of mayors

Here is a list of Mayors of Parepare since 1960: #Andi Mannaungi (1960–1965) #Andi Mappangara (1965–1968) #Andi Mallarangeng (1969–1972) #Abdullah Adjaib (1972–1973) #Parawansa (1973–1977) #Joesoef Madjid (1977–1983) #Andi Samad Thahir (1983–1988) #Mirdin Kasim (1988–1993) #Syamsul Alam Bulu (1993–1998) #Basrah Hafid (1998–2003) #Zain Katoe (2003–2010) #Sjamsu Alam (2010–2013) #Taufan Pawe (2013–2023)

Twin town

Tawau Tawau (, Jawi: , ), formerly known as Tawao, is the capital of the Tawau District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the third-largest city in Sabah, after Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan. It is located on the Semporna Peninsula in the southeast coast of t ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

References

* http://indonesia-tourism.com/blog/parepare-city/

External links

Official Website

Local News Website

Pondok Pesantren Al-Badar Parepare

Provider Jaringan Internet RT/RW
{{Authority control Port cities and towns in Indonesia Populated places in South Sulawesi Cities in Indonesia