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Malinau Regency is a regency of North Kalimantan Province in Indonesia . It was created on 4 October 1999 from the western districts of Bulungan Regency . The administrative centre is the town of Malinau . The regency is home to the Kayan Mentarang National Park . It covers an area of 38,911.80 km, and had a population of 62,423 at the 2010 Census and 82,510 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 85,073 (comprising 44,851 males and 40,222 females). It is the regency with the largest area in the province (containing over 55% of the provincial area), as well as the least densely populated. Other than that, Malinau is the only regency in North Kalimantan that is predominantly Protestant and the second most-developed region in North Kalimantan after Tarakan in terms of Human Development Index .

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74-760: Malinau was originally a residential area inhabited by the Tidung ethnic group. Based on information from Tidung community leaders, the name Malinau originated when the Dutch settled an area formerly known as Selamban. At the time Selamban was inhabited by the Tidung Tribe, while across the Kabiran river the village Pelita Canaan was inhabited by the Dayak Abai tribe. When the Dutch arrived in Selamban they met

148-460: A Balinese temple , and a Chinese Buddhist temple . The only Balinese Hindu temple in the regency is named Pura Agung Femung Jagatnatha and located in Malinau Kota district. It is mostly used by Balinese migrants. The length of roads in the regency is 1,043.20 kilometres, out of which only 167.42 kilometres have been sealed and paved. Malinau Kota, the regency seat and most populous district,

222-444: A direct , simple majority system, with incumbent president Joko Widodo , known as Jokowi, running for re-election with senior Muslim cleric Ma'ruf Amin as his running mate against former general Prabowo Subianto and former Jakarta vice governor Sandiaga Uno for a five-year term between 2019 and 2024. The election was a rematch of the 2014 presidential election , in which Jokowi defeated Prabowo. The legislative election, which

296-535: A "peaceful campaign" declaration on 23 September 2018, and the final day on 13 April 2019. Before the start of the campaign, both parties submitted their campaign teams to the KPU; Jokowi's being led by businessman Erick Thohir while Prabowo's was led by former Indonesian National Armed Forces commander Djoko Santoso . The KPU scheduled five debates to be held in 2019, the same number as in 2014. DPR member and PAN Central Committee chairman Yandri Susanto proposed that

370-511: A 2008 elections law regulating that presidential and legislative elections be held at least three months apart from one another. Following a 2013 Constitutional Court lawsuit, however, it was decided that the 2019 elections – which would have been the 12th legislative election and the 4th presidential election – would be held simultaneously. The stated intent of the simultaneous election was to reduce associated costs and minimize transactional politics, in addition to increasing voter turnout . In

444-452: A group of Abai who were harvesting sago from the sago palm , and asked the name of the river that ran between the two villages. The Abai did not understand the questions, and assumed the Dutch wanted to know what they were working on. One of the Abai said " Mal Inau " which means harvesting sago in the local Abai language; "mal" meaning making, while "inau" means tree. Thus the name Malinau

518-400: A major social media-centred campaign, dubbed #2019GantiPresiden emerged, initiated by PKS politician Mardani Ali Sera . It included holding rallies in multiple cities until they were disallowed following clashes with Jokowi supporters. Before the campaign period began, observers had expected rampant hoaxes and fake news coming through social media and WhatsApp . One observer noted that

592-460: A minimum age of 40 and a requirement to " have a belief in the One and Only God ". If the candidates had spouses, they also had to be Indonesian citizens. A criminal record resulting in over five years of incarceration or an active bankruptcy bar a candidate from running. A term limit of two terms prevented incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla from running as a vice-presidential candidate. Except for

666-421: A neutral party(s) was able to endorse their own candidate, they were required to do so, or face being barred from participating in the next election. The voting procedure followed a two-round system , with voters simply choosing one of the candidate pairs. A winning candidate was required to win a majority and at least 20% of the votes in over half of Indonesia's provinces. If no candidate pairs had fulfilled

740-560: A precaution against voter fraud. Tabulation of the votes was done manually on paper. The KPU is legally required to announce the results of the election within 35 days of the vote, i.e., before 22 May 2019. To run for the presidency, a candidate had to be supported by political parties totalling 20% of the seats in the DPR or 25% of the popular vote in the previous legislative election. Political parties were allowed to remain neutral if they were unable to propose their own candidate. However, if

814-531: A result and forced to resign from the campaign team, and Prabowo personally apologised for spreading the hoax. Both sides formed dedicated anti-hoax groups to counterattacks on social media, with the Indonesian government holding weekly fake news briefings. Amid public apathy toward mainstream parties and candidates, a pairing of spoof candidates, "Nurhadi-Aldo" (abbreviated as dildo ), gained popularity on social media, with 400,000 Instagram followers within

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888-567: A single candidate in any democratic election in Indonesia's history , exceeding the record of his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , who won 73.8 million votes in 2009 . His successor Prabowo Subianto surpassed his record in the 2024 election winning with more than 96 million votes. On 21 May 2019, the General Elections Commission (KPU) declared Jokowi victorious in the presidential election, with over 55% of

962-401: Is a second-level administrative division equivalent to city . As a regency, it is headed by a regent who is elected democratically. Meanwhile, head of districts are appointed directly by the regent with the recommendation of the regency secretary. Executive power lies with the regent and vice regent, while legislative function is exercised by the regency's parliament. Malinau Regency is part of

1036-460: Is connected by Perum DAMRI bus to Tanjung Selor and Nunukan Regency . The regency is served by Robert Atty Bessing Airport , which seen 1,051 departures and 959 arrivals in 2020 with more than 25,000 passengers both arrived and departed. Due to abundance of navigable river and lack of adequate road infrastructure, speedboat through river is one of main transportation in the regency which served movement of around 48,975 people in 2020. However, this

1110-498: Is construction with figure of 17.19%, followed by agriculture with 11.40%, and trade with 4.39%. However, mining especially coal has been declining in terms of value, shown by decrease of 4.61% on 2020 and mining in general with figure of decrease 3.55% on the same year. On the same year, the economic growth in the regency reached decrease of 0.62%. The fastest growing sector in 2020 was electricity and gas with 13.61%, followed by healthcare and social sector with 10.66% increase. In 2020,

1184-446: Is gateway to Krayan through a road that is as of 2022 still under construction, making the district a potential tourism gateway. As a district , it is a third-level administrative region under a regency. A district head ( camat ) is appointed directly by the regent with recommendation from the regency secretary. Malinau Kota itself has no parliament. The district is divided into six administrative villages ( desa ) with below listed

1258-581: Is located in the district. The education infrastructure of the regency in general is mainly concentrated in this district, where many parents sent their children for school or college due to lack of facilities in other districts. The district has one polyclinic, one puskesmas , and 10 pharmacies. There are 54 mosques, 48 churches, 2 pura , and 4 Chinese temples in the district. The main market buildings are located in Malinau Kota and Pelita Kanaan. The villages of Malinau Kota, Pelita Kanaan, and Malinau Hulu are served by angkots with fixed route. The road within

1332-410: Is mostly ultisol , inceptisol , entisol , and podzol and most of them are of old formation. The majority of soil composition in the region is considered infertile and unsuitable for large-scale farming. However, there is also a significant area dominated by alluvium soil which is mostly found at lower altitudes between 15 and 25 metres above sea level. As with most region in Indonesia, the climate

1406-467: Is sharp decrease from previous figure of 116,032 in 2019. In 2016, most of the regency have access to 4G signal. As with many regions in Indonesia, the only fiber optic service provider in the regency is IndiHome which is state-owned under Telkom Indonesia . Malinau Malinau Kota is a district and the regency seat of Malinau Regency in North Kalimantan province. The town is

1480-614: Is tropical with high humidity. Annual rainfall is between 2,500 and more than 4,000 millimeters. Average temperature sits on 26 Celsius with slight variation, between 5 and 7 degrees, between day and night temperature. The coldest period is between November and January while highest average temperature is on April. As at the 2010 Census, the regency was divided into twelve districts ( kecamatan ), districts ( kecamatan ), but three additional districts were subsequently created by splitting off from existing districts. The fifteen districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at

1554-512: The 2014 presidential election , Jakarta governor Joko Widodo defeated former general Prabowo Subianto to become the seventh President of Indonesia . Despite initially having a minority government , Jokowi later managed to secure the support of Golkar and the United Development Party , giving him control of the legislature. In the legislative elections of the same year , former opposition party PDI-P managed to secure

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1628-410: The 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. The table includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of villages (all classed as rural desa ) in each district, and its post code. Note: (a) the 2010 populations of these three new districts are included in the figures for the districts from which they were cut out. Malinau Regency

1702-721: The 2014 legislative vote and holds 223 of 560 DPR seats. Two parties – PBB (participated in the 2014 election, but did not gain a national legislature seat) and the Garuda Party (a new party) – initially did not endorse either candidate. The latter's secretary Abdullah Mansyuri stated the party was focusing on the legislative elections, while PBB chairman Yusril Ihza Mahendra said neither Jokowi nor Prabowo's camp invited PBB. Later on, however, he would join Jokowi's campaign team as its lawyer. On 27 January 2019, PBB officially endorsed Jokowi. The Aceh Nanggroe Party – which held 3 of

1776-417: The 3rd North Kalimantan electoral district, which has 4 out of 35 representatives in the provincial parliament. On local level, the regency is divided into two electoral districts that in total have 20 representatives. Last election was in 2019 and the next one would be in 2024. Economy of the regency is dominated by mining industry, which consist of 48.29% of its gross regional product. Second largest sector

1850-599: The 81 seats in Aceh's provincial council – also endorsed Jokowi in January 2019. Registration for presidential candidates was opened between 4 and 10 August 2018 at the KPU head office in Jakarta . Neither candidate declared their vice presidential pick until 9 August 2018. Both picks were considered "surprising", with Jokowi selecting senior cleric and politician Ma'ruf Amin despite early reports that former Chief Justice of

1924-940: The Constitutional Court Mahfud MD would be selected. Prabowo's last-minute selection of businessman and Jakarta vice-governor Sandiaga Uno – close to midnight on that day – was also unexpected. Sandiaga was not mentioned in the early phases of the selection. Other individuals who expressed an intent, received political support, or were touted as prospective presidential candidates included son of former president Yudhoyono and 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono , former MPR Speaker Amien Rais , Governor of Jakarta and former minister of education and culture Anies Baswedan , all of whom subsequently endorsed Prabowo, and incumbent Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla , who later expressed support for Jokowi. The official campaigning period lasted around six months, starting with

1998-622: The DPD were not allowed to be members of a political party. Four members were elected for each province – a total of 136. The voting age for the election is 17, or less if already married. In practice, the Marriage Law 16 of 2019 raised the minimum age of marriage for women from 16 to 19 (in line with men), unless given a dispensation by the Indonesian Supreme Court. This means there will be, by 2024, practically no-one under

2072-583: The KPU to run in the election. On 17 February 2018, the KPU announced that 14 parties had passed the verification precedes and would be eligible to contest the legislative election. The PBB subsequently appealed to the Bawaslu, which ruled it could participate, making a total of 15 parties. The PKPI's appeal to Bawaslu was rejected, but an 11 April ruling by the National Administrative Court ( Pengadilan Tata Usaha Negara ) decreed that

2146-483: The PAN, all parties in the government coalition supported a second term for Jokowi. In total, nine parties running in the legislative election supported Jokowi, with the coalition having met formally by May 2018. Of those nine parties, Perindo and PSI were participating for the first time. Shortly after Ma'ruf was declared as Jokowi's VP candidate, Jokowi's coalition member party PPP leader Muhammad Romahurmuziy stated that

2220-645: The People's Representative Council's special committee to deliberate a draft law concerning the 2019 elections. The Chairman of the House special committee deliberating the bill, Lukman Edy, announced on 25 April 2017 that Wednesday, 17 April 2019, had been agreed upon as the date for the elections. Nominations of candidates for the national and regional legislatures as well as candidates for president and vice president were completed in September 2018. The campaign period

2294-496: The age of 17 qualified to vote, despite this being allowed for under election Law. Indonesians living overseas could vote in either the embassies and consulates, mobile polling stations, or by post , with the voting taking place on 8–14 April. On 5 September 2018, the KPU announced there were 187 million registered voters – 185,732,093 in Indonesia and 2,049,791 voting abroad. They were to vote at 805,075 polling stations in Indonesia, with mail-in votes and 620 polling stations outside

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2368-409: The animal unicorn . On the topic of agrarian land reform, Jokowi pointed out Prabowo's ownership of 340,000 hectares (840,000 acres) of land. Prabowo stated that he held the land under cultivation rights instead of full ownership and was willing to return it to the state. The third debate, involving the vice-presidential candidates, covered education, health, labour, social affairs and culture, and

2442-488: The balance was just an initial balance, and would increase throughout the campaigning period. For the Prabowo Subianto campaign, in particular, Uno paid for the majority of campaign fees, with his contribution comprising 70% of the reported campaign funds (Rp 95.4 billion out of Rp 135 billion). Uno stated in an interview with Bloomberg that he spent around US$ 100 million on the election. By late 2018, Jokowi

2516-423: The coalition, dubbed Koalisi Indonesia Kerja (lit. "Working Indonesia Coalition"), was final, and would not accept any more parties. In total, the coalition gained over 62% of the votes during the 2014 legislative election and controlled 337 of 560 DPR seats. Aside from Gerindra, parties backing Prabowo did not confirm their support until late: PAN and PKS on 9 August 2018, Demokrat and Berkarya on 10 August,

2590-512: The country. A large number of polling stations (which was updated in April 2019 to 810,329) meant that there was an average of 200 voters per station, compared to 600 in the 2014 election. Around 17 million people are involved in some way in running the election, including the election officers, polling station guards, and registered witnesses from the candidates and parties. Later on, 670,000 names were removed following complaints of duplicates in

2664-579: The criterion, the election would have to be repeated with a maximum of two participants. Members of both the DPR and the Regional People's Representative Councils (DPRD) were elected from multi-member electoral districts through voting with an open list system, and seat distribution is done with the Sainte-Laguë method in contrast to previous elections which utilised the Hare quota . There

2738-532: The deaths were linked to fraud that disadvantaged him. As of 9 May 2019, the election commission (KPU) said the dead included 456 election officers, 91 supervisory agents and 22 police officers. In the early morning of 22 May 2019, supporters of Prabowo protested in Jakarta against Jokowi's victory. The protest turned into a riot , which left eight people killed by security officers and over 600 injured. Elections in Indonesia were previously held separately, with

2812-570: The debates be held in English, but the KPU decided that the debates would be held in Indonesian . The debate questions from the KPU were provided in advance to the candidates. The Prabowo campaign team criticised it as belittling the candidates. The first debate held on 17 January 2019, focused on legal, human rights, terrorism and corruption issues, and was moderated by Ira Koesno and Imam Priyono. Both candidates described their visions during

2886-511: The district are sealed with asphalt and considered passable during all weather year long as of 2021. There are total 17 base transceiver station towers in the district as of 2021. All of villages except Malinau Hilir has access to 4G within the same year. Postal and delivery companies have branches in Batu Lidung, Malinau Kota, Pelita Kanaan, and Malinau Hulu. The district is home to a cultural stage building, named Fadan Liu' Burung which

2960-475: The district has limited agricultural products and mostly have shifted to secondary or tertiary sectors. It has a limited amount of cultivated area, with only 17 hectares being cultivated for vegetables and fruits in 2021. The agriculture output in the same year includes 480 quintals of red chili , 1,840 quintals of cayenne pepper , 100 quintals of spinach , 300 quintals of water spinach , and 800 quintals of watermelons . There are also various fruits produced from

3034-413: The district such as durian , tangerine , mango , jackfruit , and papaya . Due to limited infrastructure in surrounding districts, neighbouring villages' residents often have to travel to the district for access to basic financial services or to trade their agricultural products. This resulted in the district being an important economic center in the region in general. There are 8 branches of banks in

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3108-400: The district's population. This followed by Malinau Hulu village with 26%. The population, as with most of places in Indonesia, is relatively young and dominated by a demographic age of 15 to 64. The district also has a dependency ratio of 46.79 which means that between 100 people, there are 46 or 47 people that are considered unproductive or not working. Being the capital of the regency,

3182-558: The district, 6 in Malinau Kota village and 2 in Malinau Hulu village. Hotels and inns are concentrated in the district, with 12 out of 15 accommodations in the entire regency located in the district. Almost 70% of visitors to the regency are concentrated in the district, along with more than 70% of the regency's registered restaurants or 119 out of 168 restaurants in the entire regency in 2021. The village of Malinau Kota hosts 17 registered minimarket and convenience stores. The district

3256-675: The early stages. Jokowi admitted the difficulty of solving old human rights cases and promising to strengthen law enforcement institutions. Prabowo shared this sentiment and called for an increase in the salaries of civil servants to reduce corruption. The second debate was held on 17 February 2019, with topics covering energy, food, infrastructure, natural resources and the environment, and was moderated by news presenters Anisha Dasuki and Tommy Tjokro. This time, both candidates utilised more numbers and statistics. In one segment, Jokowi questioned Prabowo on his stance about unicorn companies , briefly confusing Prabowo and led to internet memes related to

3330-402: The east. Malinau has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round. The district has a population of 25,596 people or 31% of the regency's population, spread out across six administrative villages within the district. Most of the district's population is concentrated on the village with the same name as the district, Malinau Kota, which consists of 51% of

3404-562: The economic center of the regency, largest town in the regency, and serves as a gateway for interior towns and villages around the Heart of Borneo especially neighbouring Krayan region in Nunukan Regency . It had a population of 27,736 (or around 32.5% of the entire regency's population) in mid 2022. The district borders North Malinau District in the north, Western Malinau District in the south and western, and Tana Tidung Regency in

3478-517: The election. In addition, the vote was monitored by the Bawaslu, which also had the authority to rule on violations of election rules (e.g. administrative errors, vote-buying, etc.). Any ethical violations committed by either Bawaslu or the KPU were to be handled by the Elections Organizer Honor Council (Dewan Kehormatan Penyelenggara Pemilu DKPP), which consists of one member from each body and five others recommended by

3552-495: The first month of its creation. The account parodied typical political aesthetics and utilised vulgar acronyms. On 23 September, both campaign teams submitted an initial budget. Jokowi's campaign team reported an initial balance of Rp 11.9 billion and Prabowo's team Rp 2 billion. Indonesia Corruption Watch observers deemed the initial numbers "unrealistic" (Jokowi's team spent Rp 293 billion in 2014, while Prabowo's spent Rp 166 billion). Representatives from both teams responded that

3626-451: The first time in the country's history, the president , the vice president , members of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), and members of local legislative bodies were elected on the same day with over 190 million eligible voters. Sixteen parties participated in the elections nationally, including four new parties. The presidential election, the fourth in the country's history, used

3700-407: The government was limited in its impact in handling the issue, as it may be framed as favouring the incumbent. One particular case involved activist and Prabowo campaigner Ratna Sarumpaet . She falsely claimed to have been assaulted, initially causing many prominent opposition politicians to voice support. However, she admitted that she had lied following a police investigation. She was prosecuted as

3774-432: The government. Voters were given five ballot papers: for the president and vice president, Regional Representative Council (DPD), People's Representative Council (DPR), provincial council, and regency/municipal council ( DPRD Provinsi and DPRD Kabupaten/Kota ) members. Voters used a nail to poke a hole in the ballot paper indicating which party or candidate they wish to vote for, and then dip their fingers in ink as

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3848-610: The largest share in the DPR, ahead of Golkar and Gerindra . Despite plans to introduce electronic voting , the DPR in March 2017 announced it would not mandate e-voting in the 2019 elections because of hacking fears and because of the lack of nationwide internet coverage. On 7 April 2017, the KPU, the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and the Ministry of Home Affairs held a meeting with

3922-411: The lowest is South Malinau with population decreased 3.6% on the same year. The most dense district is Malinau Kota, with density of 187.41 people per square kilometer and the least dense is Kayan Hilir with density of 0.13 per square kilometer. From the population, 41,300 people considered economically active by Statistics Indonesia . Dominant religion in the regency is Protestant which sits around 60% of

3996-497: The new province of North Kalimantan . Malinau borders Nunukan Regency in the north, Tana Tidung , Bulungan , and Berau regencies in the east, East Kutai , Kutai Kartanegara , and West Kutai regencies in the south, and the Malaysian state of Sabah in the west. From its 38,911.8 square kilometres of area, Kayan Mentarang National Park consists of 24.88% of the total area of the regency. Other than that, another 16.97% of

4070-646: The party was eligible to contest in the election. A further four parties contested in Aceh only. The four Aceh local parties were: In July 2017, the People's Representative Council (DPR) confirmed that only parties or coalitions with at least 20% of seats in the legislature, or 25% of votes in the previous election , would be eligible to submit a presidential candidate. Requirements for presidential/vice-presidential candidates were similar, with only either Indonesia-born lifelong Indonesian citizens or naturalised citizens who were born abroad and obtained foreign citizenship outside their own will being eligible to run with

4144-585: The population followed by minority of Muslim, Catholic, and Buddhist. There are exactly 36 kindergartens, 108 elementary schools, 40 junior high schools, 19 senior high schools, in addition to 4 vocational high schools. There is only one higher education institution in the regency, which is Malinau Polytech, located in North Malinau district. It is a private institution established in 2007 and offers diplomas in business administration, accounting, plantation cultivation, and information. School participation rate

4218-534: The regency and 17 registered restaurants. Number of restaurants including unregistered one could be higher. Service sector has been growing helped with regency government aiming at reducing dependency on mining and resource extraction and promoting tourism & restaurant sector. However, on late 2020 five hotels closed operation because of COVID-19 pandemic . Poverty rate in 2020 was 6.63%. Religion in Malinau Regency (June 2021) Population growth in 2020

4292-464: The regency is protected forest, and 49.69% is production forest. Altitude in Malinau varies between altitude of 0 to 2,000 metres above sea level with slope between 0% to 40%. Human settlement and ricefields are mostly found across the regency with a gradient of 3% to 15%. The regency is considered located at a relatively high altitude compared to its neighbouring regions. Soil composition in the region

4366-474: The regency produces total of 985 tons of various vegetables and 3,209 tons of various fruits. The most populous livestock in the regency is chicken with more than 700,000 followed by pig with population of 12,015, ducks with population of 3,509, and cattle with population of 1,940. The regency is visited by 14,555 domestic tourists and 39 foreign tourists in 2020. 58% of tourist destination is nature due to presence of national park. There are 17 registered hotels in

4440-599: The regency, Malinau Main Stadion and is home to club Persemal Malinau. There's a bus terminal located in the district which is mainly used by bus operated by Perum DAMRI to and from Nunukan Regency and Tanjung Selor . 2019 Indonesian general election Joko Widodo PDI-P Joko Widodo PDI-P [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] General elections were held in Indonesia on 17 April 2019. For

4514-416: The registration day, though the coalition had existed prior. PAN withdrew from the government coalition, resulting in the resignation of bureaucratic reform minister and PAN member Asman Abnur . The pro-Prabowo coalition was named Koalisi Indonesia Adil Makmur (lit. "Just and Prosperous Indonesia Coalition"). There are five parties in the coalition – including Berkarya , a new party – which won 36% of

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4588-580: The registry. The figure was later updated to 192.8 million voters, including 2 million overseas. Due to various logistical issues, namely with the distribution of ballot papers, 2,249 polling stations had to conduct follow-up voting. A repeat vote was also recommended in the Kuala Lumpur embassy due to suspected voter fraud and a follow-up election in Sydney due to the voting station there closing early. A total of 27 political parties registered with

4662-576: The villages as well as the population as of 2021. On regency level, the district is part of Malinau 1st electoral district together with North Malinau, Mentarang, Mentarang Hulu, and Sungai Tubu District sends 12 out of 20 representatives to regency's parliament. The last election was in 2019 and the next one would be in 2024. The district has 12 kindergartens, 13 elementary schools, 6 junior high schools, 4 senior high schools, in addition to one vocational high school. In addition, one of two regency's only tertiary education institution, Malinau Polytechnic,

4736-691: The vote. Widodo's PDI-P finished first in the DPR election with 19.33%, followed by Prabowo's Gerindra with 12.57%, then Golkar with 12.31%, the National Awakening Party (PKB) with 9.69%, the NasDem Party with 9.05%, and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) with 8.21%. Following the election, reports of the more than 7 million election workers, among which 569 had died during the lengthy voting and counting process, surfaced. Prabowo's campaign team claimed that

4810-610: The voter registry, lowering the total voter count to around 187.1 million. Further investigations resulted in over 1 million duplicate voters discovered in Papua alone in October, out of the initial voter registry of 3 million. Bawaslu commissioners in early September estimated that there would be around 2 million duplicate voters, while opposition party Gerindra stated that they only had 137 million voters in their internal registry, and claimed that they found 25 million duplicate names in

4884-400: Was 2.71% with sex ratio of 115, means there are 115 male for every 100 female population. 32.27% of regency's population live on its regency seat, Malinau Kota district. As with most of regions in Indonesia, its population is dominated by reproductive age above 15 years which consist of 69.01% of population. District with highest population growth is North Malinau with figure of 3.66% in 2020 and

4958-616: Was 93.28% in 2020 and literacy rate was 98.34% on the same year. On healthcare facilities, there are three hospitals, one polyclinic, 97 puskesmas, and 9 pharmacies. Malinau Regional Hospital, owned by the regency government, is the main hospital and the largest in the regency, located in North Malinau District. It is considered a C-class hospital by Ministry of Health. In addition, the regency has 123 healthcare centers and 6 operational medical clinics. There are exactly 59 mosques, 174 Protestant churches, 35 Catholic churches,

5032-454: Was a gender quota requiring at least 30% of registered candidates to be female. A 4% parliamentary threshold was set for parties to be represented in the DPR, though candidates could still win seats in the regional councils provided they won sufficient votes. There were 575 DPR seats contested – up from 560 in 2014. Nationally, there were 80 DPR electoral districts, with 272 provincial and 2,206 municipal electoral districts. Candidates for

5106-406: Was ahead of Prabowo in most surveys. The table below gives detailed survey results from a variety of organizations. NOTE : See warning above NOTE : See warning above All legislative candidates had to be Indonesian citizens, over 21 years old, senior high school (or equivalent) graduates, and have never been convicted for a crime resulting in a sentence of 5 years or more. In addition,

5180-432: Was born. A map of the area made during the colonial period called the local river "the Malinau", and the area has been known as Malinau since. As people migrated into Selamban, it eventually grew much larger and became a town, renamed Malinau. When Bulungan Regency was divided on 4 October 1999, Malinau became the administrative centre of the newly formed Malinau Regency. In December 2012, Malinau Regency became part of

5254-405: Was from 13 October 2018 to 13 April 2019 followed by a three-day election silence before the voting day on 17 April. The final results were planned to be announced on 22 May, while the inauguration of the president and vice president was scheduled for 20 October 2019. The election was regulated by Law No. 7 of 2017 . The KPU, a legally independent government body was responsible for organizing

5328-420: Was held on 17 March 2019. On 30 March 2019, the fourth debate was held, which was centred around defence and foreign policy. The fifth and final debate was held on 13 April 2019 and focused on economics, public welfare, industry, trade and investment. With millennials making up around two-fifths of Indonesia's population, there were significant efforts by both sides to appeal to the age group. One example of

5402-406: Was inaugurated in 2020 and is the cultural center of the regency where performances and events are held. The stage is located close to town square of the district, Pro Sehat Pelangi Intimung Square or shortened to Prosehat Square (Indonesian: Lapangan Prosehat ) which features several sport and exercise facilities such as jogging track and basketball court. The district is home to main stadion of

5476-460: Was the 12th such election for Indonesia, saw over 240,000 candidates competing for over 20,000 seats in the MPR and local councils for provinces and cities/regencies, with over 8,000 competing for the People's Representative Council (DPR) seats alone. The election was described as "one of the most complicated single-day ballots in global history". Jokowi's 85.6 million votes were the most votes cast for

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