The Riau Islands is a province of Indonesia - not to be confused with neighbouring Riau Province from which the islands were separated in 2002. The capital of the province is Tanjung Pinang and the largest city is Batam. It shares a maritime border with Riau and Jambi to the east,Bangka Belitung Islands to the south,Singapore to the northeast,Malaysia and West Kalimantan to the west,and Vietnam and Cambodia to the north. It comprises a total of 1,796 islands scattered between Sumatra,Malay Peninsula,and Borneo including the Riau Archipelago. Situated on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes along the Malacca Strait and the Natuna Sea,the province shares water borders with neighboring countries such as Singapore,Malaysia,and Brunei. The Riau Islands also have relatively large potential mineral resources and energy,as well as marine resources.
Tanjungpinang,also colloquially written as Tanjung Pinang,is the capital city of the Indonesian province of Riau Islands. It covers a land area of 144.56 km2,mainly on the southern Bintan Island,as well as other smaller islands such as Dompak Island and Penyengat Island. With a population of 227,663 at the 2020 Census,it is the second largest city of the province,after Batam;the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 239,854. Tanjungpinang is a historic city of the Malay culture,having served as the capital of both Johor Sultanate and Riau-Lingga Sultanate.
Bintan Regency is an administrative area in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia. Bintan Regency includes all of Bintan Island and also includes many outlying islands including the Tambelan Archipelago and Badas Islands situated between Bintan and West Kalimantan.
Dedi Mulyadi is an Indonesian politician who was the regent of Purwakarta,holding that position between 2008 and 2018.
Local elections were held in Indonesia on 27 June 2018. Voters elected 17 governors,39 mayors and 115 regents across the country. The elections included gubernatorial elections for Indonesia's four most populous provinces:West Java,East Java,Central Java and North Sumatra.
The 2018 Riau gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of Riau along with their deputy,whilst members of the provincial council will be re-elected in 2019.
Nurdin Basirun is an Indonesian politician who had served as the governor of Riau Islands since May 2016 until July 2019. Before serving as governor,he was briefly vice governor,and had served ten years as the regent of Karimun. In 2019,he was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission for receiving bribes.
Erzaldi Rosman Djohan is an Indonesian politician who has served as the governor of Bangka-Belitung Islands since 2017 to 2022. Prior to becoming governor,he was elected two times as the regent of Central Bangka Regency.
The Regent of Thousand Islands,officially the Administrative Regent of Thousand Islands,is the highest office in the regency of Thousand Islands. Unlike regents in other regencies in Indonesia,the regent is appointed directly by the governor. The regency has no regional parliament,thus making the regent responsible to the governor.
Syamsuar is an Indonesian politician who served as the Governor of Riau from 2019 until 2023. He previously served as Regent of Siak Regency between 2011 and 2019.
Wan Thamrin Hasyim is an Indonesian politician who served as the governor of Riau between December 2018 and February 2019. Previously,he served as Vice Governor between 2017 and 2018,and was the first regent of Rokan Hilir Regency between 2001 and 2006.
Abdul Wahab Dalimunthe was an Indonesian bureaucrat and politician. He served as the Vice Governor of North Sumatra from 1997 until 2003,Speaker of the North Sumatra Regional People's Representative Council from 2004 until 2008,and MP from 2009 to 2014 and from 2017 until his death.
Perkumpulan Sepakbola Shark Tanjungpinang is an Indonesian football club based in Tanjungpinang,Riau Islands. They currently compete in the Liga 3,in 2021,PS Shark Tanjungpinang has been registered as a member of the Provincial Association PSSI of Riau Islands.
Annas Maamun is an Indonesian politician who was imprisoned for corruption who served as governor of Riau between February and September 2014. He was previously the regent of Rokan Hilir Regency between 2006 and 2014. His term as governor was ended by a corruption scandal,which led to him being imprisoned for six years. After his release in 2020,he was once more arrested for a bribery case from his time as governor,and sentenced to another year in prison in 2022.
Local elections to elect governors,mayors and regents in Indonesia will be held on 27 November 2024 across 548 regions:37 provinces,415 regencies and 98 cities. The previous local executive elections were held in 2020.
Thoriqul Haq is an Indonesian politician of the National Awakening Party who served as the regent of Lumajang Regency,East Java,from 2018 to 2023. He had previously represented the regency along with Jember in the East Java Regional House of Representatives from 2009 to 2018.
Marwan Hamami is an Indonesian politician of the Golkar party who has served as the regent of Sukabumi Regency,West Java since 2016. He was previously vice regent of Sukabumi between 2005 and 2010.
Sanusi is an Indonesian politician of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle who has served as the regent of Malang Regency in East Java since 2018. He was previously vice regent between 2016 and 2018,when the regent Rendra Kresna was arrested. Between 1999 and 2014,he served in the regency's legislature as a member of the National Awakening Party.
Rendra Kresna is an Indonesian former politician who was the regent of Malang Regency,East Java between 2010–2015 and 2016–2018. He was elected twice in the 2010 and 2015 regency elections,but his second term was cut short when he was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission and sentenced to prison for bribery. He also served Malang's vice regent between 2005 and 2010,and was a member of the regency's Regional House of Representatives.
