Barus

Barus is a kecamatan (district) in Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Barus was also known as a historical port town on western coast of Sumatra, known as a regional trade center c. 7th to 17th century, and is also called by another name, namely Fansur and Barusai.

History

Barus was an important site on the west coast of Sumatra, during the Srivijaya period. Its well known commodity being produced and traded in Barus was camphor, locally known as kapur barus (Barus' chalk). Contemporary related sites in Sumatra includes Lamuri in Aceh and Pannai in North Sumatra.

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Coordinates: 2°00′00″N 98°24′00″E / 2.0000°N 98.4000°E / 2.0000; 98.4000

Central Tapanuli Regency

Central Tapanuli Regency (Tanapuli Tengahis in Indonesia) is a regency in North Sumatra province, Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the seat is Pandan. The regency covers an area of 2,158 km² and according to the 2010 census it had a population of 310,962; the latest official estimate (for January 2014) is 324,315.

Administration

The regency is divided into twenty districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population:

Tourist sites

Central Tapanuli's beaches are ideal for surfing, although are not as well known as those of Nias Island. The regency has 30 islands and one of the biggest is Marsala Island with 8,000 hectares (1 hour by motorboat from Sibolga) and has a waterfall which directly drops to the sea; around 100 meters from the waterfall drop the water still plain taste and the corals are unique and beautiful. In 1933, the first King Kong film has taken pictures here.

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Joko Widodo

Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (Javanese: ꦗꦑ꧈ꦮꦶꦢꦢGêdrìk: Jåkå Widådå; O-Javanese: Jaka Widada; born 21 June 1961) is the President of Indonesia, in office since 2014. Previously he was Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012 and Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014. He is the first Indonesian president not to have emerged from the country’s political elite or as an army general.

Jokowi was nominated by his party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), to run in the 2012 Jakarta gubernatorial election with Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (often known as Ahok) as his running mate. Jokowi was elected as Governor of Jakarta on 20 September 2012 after a second round runoff election in which he defeated the incumbent governor Fauzi Bowo. Jokowi's win was widely seen as reflecting popular voter support for "new" or "clean" leaders rather than the "old" style of politics in Indonesia.

His nomination as PDI-P candidate for the 2014 presidential election was announced on 14 March 2014. The presidential election was held on 9 July 2014. After some controversy about the result of the election, Jokowi was named as president-elect on 22 July. He was formally declared as the winner of the election by the General Elections Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum or KPU), winning more than 53% of the vote over his opponent, Prabowo Subianto, who disputed the outcome and withdrew from the race before the count was completed.