East Nusa Tenggara - Administration

Administration

After the declaration of Indonesian independence in 1945, the eastern part of Indonesia declared the State of East Indonesia. The state was further included in the United States of Indonesia as part of the agreement with the Dutch contained in the transfer its sovereignty to Indonesia in 1949.

In 1950, United States of Indonesia dissolved itself into a unitary state and began to divide its region into provinces. In 1958, by Indonesian law (Undang-Undang) No. 64/1958, three provinces were established in the Lesser Sunda Islands, namely Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara. The area of East Nusa Tenggara province included the western part of Timor island, Flores, Sumba and other several small islands in the region. The province was further divided into twelve regencies.

Following the fall of Suharto regime in 1998 and the passage of a new regional autonomy law, there was a dramatic proliferation ( known as pemekaran in Indonesia) of regional governments across Indonesia (at both provincial and regency level). Several new regions were created in East Nusa Tenggara. In 1999, the new Lembata Regency was formed after the division of the East Flores Regency. In 2002, Rote and Ndao Islands were split off from Kupang Regency, to form a new Rote Ndao Regency. The following year, Manggarai Regency was split into two and a new West Manggarai Regency established. In 2007, the administration of East Nusa Tenggara province was expanded more by the establishment of four new regencies - Central Sumba, Southwest Sumba, Nagekeo and East Manggarai. Therefore, as of 2008, there were nineteen regencies and only one autonomous city (Kupang) in the province; a further regency - Sabu Raijua (comprising the Savu Islands group) - was formed in 2010 from part of the remaining Kupang Regency.

Name	Est.	Statute	Area (km²)	Population 2008 estimate	Population 2010 Census	Capital
West Manggarai Regency (Manggarai Barat) (includes Komodo and Rinca)	2003	UU 8/2003	2,947	206,367	221,430	Labuan Bajo
Manggarai Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	1,687	512,065	292,037	Ruteng
East Manggarai Regency (Manggarai Timur)	2007	UU 36/2007	2,502	included with Manggarai	252,754	Borong
Ngada Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	1,621	133,406	142,254	Bajawa
Nagekeo Regency	2007	UU 2/2007	1,417	124,992	129,956	Mbay
Ende Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	2,047	238,127	260,428	Ende
Sikka Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	1,732	278,628	300,301	Maumere
East Flores Regency (Flores Timur, including Adonara and Solor)	1958	UU 69/1958	1,813	234,076	232,312	Larantuka
Lembata Regency (Lomblen)	1999	UU 52/1999	1,267	106,312	117,638	Lewoleba
Alor Regency (Alor Archipelago)	1958	UU 69/1958	2,865	180,487	190,253	Kalabahi
Northern (Flores) group			19,897	2,014,460	2,138,363
West Sumba Regency (Sumba Barat)	1958	UU 69/1958	737	106,524	111,023	Waikabubak
East Sumba Regency (Sumba Timur)	1958	UU 69/1958	7,000	228,351	227,835	Waingapu
Central Sumba Regency (Sumba Tengah)	2007	UU 3/2007	1,869	60,173	62,510	Waibakul
Southwest Sumba Regency (Sumba Barat Daya)	2007	UU 16/2007	1,445	261,211	283,818	Tambolaka
Southwestern (Sumba) group			11,052	656,259	685,186
Sabu Raijua Regency	2010		461	included with Kupang Regency	73,000	West Savu
Rote Ndao Regency	2002	UU 9/2002	1,280	114,236	119,711	Baa
Kupang City			160	292,922	335,585	Kupang
Kupang Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	5,437	383,896	303,998	Oelmasi
South Central Timor Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	3,947	417,942	440,470	Soe
North Central Timor Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	2,670	213,153	229,603	Kefamenanu
Belu Regency	1958	UU 69/1958	2,446	441,451	352,400	Atambua
Southeastern (Timor) group			16,401	1,863,600	1,854,767