Tangerang Regency
Tangerang Regency was subdivided into 36 Districts, which were further divided into several villages and administrative villages, before the latest split; it now comprises 29 districts.
Tangerang city was formed as an autonomous city on 27 February 1993 out of the Tangerang Regency. The city was previously an administrative city within that Regency.
On 27 February 2008, seven districts in the southern part of Tangerang Regency were cut out to form the South Tangerang autonomous city/municipality. They were Ciputat, Ciputat Timur, Pamulang, Pondok Aren, Serpong, Serpong Utara (North Serpong) and Setu.
An idea to set up a new North Tangerang regency emerged in 2002 when a group of residents from the Mauk, Rajeg, Kemiri, Sepatan, Sepatan Timur, Sukadiri, Pakuhaji, Kosambi and Teluknaga districts decided their combined area had the potential to become a regency. In October 2011, thirteen districts expressed their interest in splitting from the regency and forming a new North Tangerang Regency. They are Sindang Jaya, Pasar Kemis, Kronjo, Mekar Baru, Kosambi, Teluknaga, Pakuhaji, Sepatan Timur, Sepatan, Sukadiri, Mauk, Rajeg and Kemiri. These thirteen districts had a combined population of 1,257,416 at the 2010 Census.
After losing seven districts, which have formed into the newly established South Tangerang municipality, the Tangerang Regency administration is planning to divide three of the remaining 29 districts into six in the near future. "We have conducted a study on the regional division, and the results suggest the division of Rajeg, Pakuhaji and Teluknaga districts", Muhamad, administration affairs chief at the regional administration said in April 2010.
Tangerang Council chairman Dadang Kartasasmita has proposed the administration split the present regency into three: two regencies and one municipality. According to the proposal, Tigaraksa regency would comprise 16 districts in the west of the existing regency, Pantura regency along the northern coast would comprise nine districts and Cipasera municipality would comprise four districts bordering Jakarta, areas where many commuters to the capital live.
Related Sites for Tangerang Regency
- Website Resmi Pemerintahan Kabupaten Tangerang read Tangerang Regency
- Tangerang Regency read Tangerang Regency
- West Tangerang soon to be a regency | The Jakarta Post read Tangerang Regency
- Tangerang districts want to split from regency | The Jakarta Post read Tangerang Regency
