Kisaran is a city in the
North Sumatra province of
Indonesia
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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 km
2 , 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
Islam. The rest are
Protestants,
Buddhists,
Catholics,
Hindus
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and a small number of
Confucians
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.
Ethnic
BPS data of 2017 noted that the plurality of the population in Kisaran is
Javanese (38.01%), followed by
Malay (25.69%),
Batak 23.88%,
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
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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 (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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