Polewali Mandar
Polewali Mandar is one of regencies in
West Sulawesi, while the capital city is Polewali. The population in Polewali
Mandar is about 455,572 inhabitants. This area was know as Polewali Mamasa
Regency or abbreviated by Polmas, which was administratively part of South
Sulawesi province. After divided into establishment, Mamasa was bacome the
separate district and Polewali Mamasa was changed into Polewali Mandar. It was
officially appointed since January 1, 2006. Polewali Mandar is geographically
located between 2 ° 40'00 "-3 ° 32'00" N and 118 ° 40'27 "-119 °
32'27" East Longitude. It has border with Tondok Regency in North, Pokko
Strait in South, Lembaga Regency in West and Benuang Regency in East.
Administratively, the total area of
Polewali Mandar is about 2.022,30 km² and divided into 15 sub-districts. Date
back to the early begin, in colonial times, Polewali Mandar was part of the 7
areas of government known as Afdeling Mandar which includes four Onder section,
which was: Onder Afdeling Majene with the capital of Majene, Onder Afdeling
Mamuju with the capital of Mamuju, Onder Afdeling Polewali with the capital of
Polewali and Onder Afdeling Mamasa with the capital of Mamasa.
Onder Afdeling Majene, Mamuju and
Polewali was lies along the western coast of Sulawesi Island, covers 7 areas
kingdom (Unity Customary Law), known by the name of Pitu Baqbana Binanga (Seven
Kingdom at River Estuary). Polewai Mandar has some potential things regarding
the way of life of the inhabitant. For instance, in agriculture, Polewali
Mandar has excellent commodity in rice and any other field crops, including
maze, soybean, and cassava. Besides, green beans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes
are also encouraged. In hortikulture, Polewali Mandar also relies on durian,
mangosteen, mango, and rambutan.
As resources development, plantation
has a very large role in many aspects: economic, ecological, and social. In
economic terms, the plantation sector can increase people's income and regional
income, which has implications for the social security. As for the ecological
aspect, this sector plays a major role in ensuring the environmental balance
which also impacted on the social aspects of development or social change. By
located in strategic area and has large enough area for plantation, it become
the economic potential gain for the regency.Recently, agricultural products
such as cocoa, coffee, coconut, clove, hazelnut, and cashew are still very
reliable as the leading commodity in Polewali Mandar.
In the field of forestry, Polewali
Mandar referred to succeed through participation and active role of society,
without neglecting the importance of protecting forests. Between communities
and governments are together use forest products and develop them for the
common welfare. As a result, the potential commodity such as rattan, pine,
rosin, and wood, is being keep in empower.The commodity in livestock is also
potentially growth in proper way. The climate in Polewali Mandar is properly
suitable for a large cultivation livestock like cows, buffaloes and horses. It
has also small livestock population like goat, fowl and pig. In industry, the
commodity in Polewali Mandar is about cooking oil, silk, boat, rattan polish,
and machinery.And also the citizen of Polewali Mndar is the Arts of Batik Weave
and others with best quality. While in mining, Polewali Mandar set in category
C which is copper, iron ore, granite and sienit, mica, clay, quartz and
zeolite.
In tourism sector, Polewali Mandar
also has great potential compared to other areas in West Sulawesi. Among of, it
has marine tourism, nature tourism, cultural tourism, and handicrafts center
which lies on several districts. The famous tourism object are Bahari beach,
Indo Ranoang waterfall and Limbong spring, Limbong Miala waterfall, Limbong
Kamandan, Sekka-sekka and Lopi Sandeq.
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