DENPASAR

Denpasar City

 

Denpasar City is a city on the island of Bali and at once became the capital Province Bali , Indonesia .

Industrial growth of tourism on the island of Bali Denpasar City became the center of encouraging business activity, and put this city as an area that has a per capitas income and high growth in the province of Bali government will prepare three cities namely Medan, Denpasar and Makassar as a new metropolitan city. Spatial three cities were included in the National Spatial Plan

 

History

Denpasar name can mean new markets, before the region was part of the Badung kingdom , an empire that had stood since the 19th century, before the kingdom defeated by the Netherlands on September 20, 1906, in an event known as the heroic War of Puputan Badung.

After the independence of Indonesia, based on Law Number 69 Year 1958, Denpasar became the capital of the regional government of Badung Regency , in turn based on the Decree of the Minister of Home Affairs Number Des.52/2/36-136 dated June 23, 1960, Denpasar also defined as capital for Bali Province which was originally based in Singaraja.

 

Then based on Government Regulation No. 20 of 1978, officially became''Denpasar Denpasar City Administrative'', and along with the ability and potential of regional autonomy in organizing its territory, on January 15, 1992, under Law No. 1 of 1992, and Denpasar enhanced the status of a''municipality'', which was inaugurated by the Minister of Home Affairs on 27 February 1992.

Geography

Denpasar City at an altitude of 0-75 meters above sea level, located at position 8 ° 35'31 "to 8 ° 44'49" south latitude and 115 ° 00'23 "to 115 ° 16'27" East Longitude. While the area of Denpasar City 127.78 km ² or 2.18% of the total area of Bali Province. From the use of land, 2768 hectares are paddy land, 10,001 hectares are dry land and the remaining land area of 9 ha is another. Level of an average rainfall of 244 mm per month, with a fairly high rainfall occurred in December. While the average air temperature of about 29.8 ° C with the lowest average of about 24.3 ° C.

Badung River is a river that divides the city of Denpasar, the river empties into the Gulf of Benoa.

Population

Population growth rate per year in the city of Denpasar period 2000-2010 amounted to 4%, with a ratio of the male population more 4:57% compared to the female population.

Approximately 68.4% of the population converted to Hinduism , while the religion of Islam are the largest minority religion other than Christianity , Buddhism and Confucianism .

Economy

Strong influence on tourism development and improvement of economic structure changes in the city of Denpasar. But the economic structure of the city of Denpasar is slightly different when compared with the structure of the economy of Bali Province in general, by placing the sectors of trade , hotels and restaurants dominate the establishment of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GDP) of Denpasar.

 

Were also boost the economy of Denpasar is the production of handicrafts in the form of handicrafts for souvenirs, such as carvings and statues. But the craft industry is being subjected to pressure, but because of the impact of the crisis and competition between regions, other pressure comes from competition between other Asian developing countries such as Vietnam , Thailand , India , Malaysia and China . Competitor countries is more to maximize the scale of production by utilizing the technology industry, while in Denpasar this handicraft industry still maintains dexterity (hand made) impeding the fulfillment of production quantity.

Tourism Strong influence on tourism development and improvement of economic structure changes in the city of Denpasar. But the economic structure of the city of Denpasar is slightly different when compared with the structure of the economy of Bali Province in general, by placing the sectors of trade , hotels and restaurants dominate the establishment of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GDP) of Denpasar.

Were also boost the economy of Denpasar is the production of handicrafts in the form of handicrafts for souvenirs, such as carvings and statues. But the craft industry is being subjected to pressure, but because of the impact of the crisis and competition between regions, other pressure comes from competition between other Asian developing countries such as Vietnam , Thailand , India , Malaysia and China . Competitor countries is more to maximize the scale of production by utilizing the technology industry, while in Denpasar this handicraft industry still maintains dexterity (hand made) impeding the fulfillment of production quantity.

Tourism

The development of tourism and the attractiveness of the island of Bali, has indirectly encouraged the progress of development in the city of Denpasar. In 2000, the number of foreign tourists visiting reached 1,413,513 people, and places the highest number of tourists from Japan and then followed from Australia , Taiwan , Europe , Britain , America , Singapore and Malaysia .

 

Tourism development policy in Denpasar focused on environmentally sound tourism culture. As one of the centers of tourism development, Denpasar became a barometer for the progress of tourism in Bali, this can be seen with the emergence of various five-star hotels as a means of supporting the tourism activity.

Sanur beach is one of the coastal resorts are crowded. While Puputan Field is an area of green open space in the city of Denpasar also functions as the lungs of the city.

Government

Administratively, the city government is composed of 4 districts , 43 villages or villages with 209 hamlets . Currently the government of Denpasar has developed numerous innovations in improving services to the community, began to reorganize the system of administration of residence.

Health

Denpasar city has a good health service facilities in the province of Bali, there are three hospitals owned by the government include Denpasar Sanglah Hospital, Hospital Wangaya and RSAD Udayana and 13 pieces of private hospitals.

While in order to improve equity of health services to the community, the government of Denpasar has built 10 pieces of health centers and 26 health centers fruit, with the ratio of health centers per 100,000 population was 1.7.

Public Service

To serve the needs of clean water for communities in Denpasar, Denpasar City is served by public water utilities, and until 2003 had been able to serve 64.82% of the population. Source of raw water taps Denpasar is surface water and wells in the processing using Complete Water Treatment Plant (WWTP). While teaching systems using gravity and pumping system.

In tackling waste , government Denpasar utilizing Final Disposal (landfill) waste at Kauh Sanur Village , South Denpasar District area of 40 ha. From 2002 data, the amount of waste the city of Denpasar is as much as 127,750 m³, mostly domestic waste which reached 71.14%. But the volume of waste has been handled just as much as 1904 m, so much garbage that has not been served is 125,846 m³, or 98.5%. Overcoming the city government with the people apply the self-management system to address the problem of the buildup of waste in the landfill.

Nexus

Benoa harbor is the entrance to the city of Denpasar by sea and is currently managed by PT Pelindo III. This port is about 10 miles from downtown, and has been operating since the year 1924.

Means of land transportation in the city of Denpasar, especially for urban transportation is starting to ineffective and inefficient, until the year 2010 only 30% are still in operation, along with a lack of interest people to use transport services, which estimated that only about 3% of the total population . While growth in private vehicle ownership continues to increase to 11% per year, and are not comparable with the construction of new roads. Resulting in congestion in the city of Denpasar can not be avoided.

Sports, Arts and Culture

The main football club Perseden Denpasar is a football club community pride city of Denpasar, and made ​​the Ngurah Rai Stadium as the headquarters and home games venues.

While arts and culture in the city of Denpasar roughly synonymous with art and culture generally, though here there has been a combination of interaction with other cultures along with the arrival of tourists from various circles. But traditional values ​​are inspired by the rituals of Hinduism is still strong coloring of this city.

Role of Traditional Balinese society is still rooted in Denpasar, Bali Adat is included, values, norms and attitudes in society generally on kinship system patrilineal . However, over time some of the customary laws began to be contrasted by the society, especially in matters of gender and inheritance

Press and Media

The government of Denpasar has a radio station broadcasting, named RPKD ( Radio City Government of Denpasar ), founded in 2002, on FM frequency 91.45. Radio is addressed to the traffic information service in order to create security and comfort for road users in the city of Denpasar.

Bali TV is a private TV station in Denpasar, and is still a business group with the Bali Post , Denpasar Post , and Global Radio . Some newspapers that made ​​the city of Denpasar as a center of publishing, among others, Radar Bali and Bali News . While some radio stations broadcasting in this town, among others, Radio Gema Merdeka , Radio Aneka Rama and so on.