Mataram (city)

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Mataram
City
City of Mataram
Kota Mataram
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Clockwise, from top; Hubbul Wathan Islamic center, Mataram City Hall, West Nusa Tenggara museum and Tembolaq Gate
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Location within West Nusa Tenggara
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Mataram (Lesser Sunda Islands)
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Mataram
Mataram (Indonesia)
Coordinates: 8°35′S116°7′E / 8.583°S 116.117°E / -8.583; 116.117
Country Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
Region Lesser Sunda Islands
Province Flag of West Nusa Tenggara.svg  West Nusa Tenggara
Government
 • Mayor Mohan Roliskana
 • Vice Mayor Mujiburahman
Area
 • Total
61.30 km2 (23.67 sq mi)
Elevation
26 m (85 ft)
Population
 (mid 2023 estimate)
 • Total
441,147
 • Density7,200/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
  [1]
Time zone UTC+8 (Indonesia Central Time)
Area code (+62) 370
Website mataramkota.go.id

Mataram (Indonesian: Kota Mataram) is a city and the capital of the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara. The city is surrounded on all the landward sides by (but is not administratively part of) West Lombok Regency and lies on the western side of the island of Lombok, Indonesia. It is also the largest city of the province, and had a population of 402,843 at the 2010 Census [2] and 429,651 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 441,147 (comprising 219,625 males and 221,522 females). [1]

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The city is an economic, cultural, and education center of the province. It hosts all public universities in the province, the main airport as well as the only international airport in the province, and also main government offices. Greater Mataram Area (Indonesian: Mataram Raya) or sometimes also called Gumi Rinjani Metropolitan Area [4] is a metropolitan area surrounding the city with a total population of around 3 million people on 2015, making it one of the largest in the Lesser Sunda Islands along with Denpasar metropolitan area in Bali. [5]

History

There was a small city called Selaparang in East Lombok, which was a centre of Sasak power in Lombok from the 16th to the 17th century AD. West Lombok was under the control of Balinese rajas, based on their states of Mataram and Cakranegara, until the island was invaded and occupied by the Dutch in 1894.

Geography

The modern city is an urban sprawl in the middle of West Lombok, composed of three contiguous towns which were formerly separate but now share a single administration. The old port town of Ampenan in the west merges into the administrative centre of Mataram and this in turn merges into the commercial town of Cakranegara. Further east still lies the district of Sweta, the location of Lombok's biggest market as well as Lombok's bus terminal. The towns are linked by a wide, 8km-long one-way street which begins as Jalan Langko in Apenan, becomes Jalan Pejanggik in Mataram and finishes as Jalan Selaparang in Cakranegara; it then continues east as the principal cross-island highway to Labuhan Lombok and then Kayangan, site of the Lombok-Sumbawa ferry.

Governance

Administrative division

The city consists of six districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census [2] and the 2020 Census, [3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [1] The table also includes the number of administrative villages (all classed as urban kelurahan, also called "kampungs") in each district, and its postal codes.

Kode
Wilayah		Name of
District
(kecamatan)		Area
in
km2		Pop'n
Census
2010		Pop'n
Census
2020		Pop'n
Estimate
mid 2023		No.
of
villages		Post
codes
52.71.01Ampenan9.4678,77988,02291,3111083118 (a)
52.71.04Sekarbela10.3253,11258,78660,816583115 & 83116
52.71.02Mataram10.7673,10777,46579,132983127 (b)
52.71.05Selaparang10.7772,66568,65768,965983126
52.71.03Cakranegara9.6764,08767,82669,2611083238 - 63239
52.71.06Sandubaya10.3261,09368,89571,662783232 - 63237
Totals61.30402,843429,651441,14750

Notes: (a) Except the kampungs of Ampenan Tengah (postcode 83112), Pejeruk (postcode 83113), Ampenan Selatan (postcode 83114) and Ampenan Utara (postcode 83511). (b) Except the kampung of Pagutan (postcode 83117).

Demographics

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Ampenan Beach

Ethnicity

The Sasak people are the indigenous people of Lombok and form the majority of Mataram's residents. Mataram is also home to people of Balinese, Javanese, Tionghoa-Peranakan people of mixed Indonesian and Chinese descent and a small number of Arab Indonesian people, mainly of Yemeni descent who arrived when the city was known as "Ampenan". Despite being urban dwellers, the Sasak people of Mataram still identify strongly with their origins and the Sasak culture.

Religion

Islam is the religion of over 82% of the population of Mataram. Hinduism has the second largest following with 13% of the population. Other religions practised in Mataram are Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism. [6]

Language

Mataram society normally speaks the Sasak language, Bahasa Sasak, which is the native language of the indigenous people of Lombok. Indonesian is the language most widely used in formal business, education and government contexts. When at home or a place of recreation, Mataram residents tend to use the Mataram Sasak language. There is also a large community of Balinese speakers in the city, as in the past Mataram was a colony and center of government for the Karangasem kingdom of Bali.

Sister City

Climate

Mataram has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) with heavy rainfall from November to March and moderate to little rainfall from April to October.

Climate data for Mataram
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)30.5
(86.9)		30.6
(87.1)		30.7
(87.3)		31.3
(88.3)		31.0
(87.8)		30.3
(86.5)		29.7
(85.5)		30.2
(86.4)		30.9
(87.6)		31.2
(88.2)		31.2
(88.2)		31.0
(87.8)		30.7
(87.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)26.6
(79.9)		26.8
(80.2)		26.5
(79.7)		26.5
(79.7)		26.0
(78.8)		25.1
(77.2)		24.5
(76.1)		25.0
(77.0)		25.9
(78.6)		26.4
(79.5)		26.9
(80.4)		26.9
(80.4)		26.1
(79.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)22.2
(72.0)		23.0
(73.4)		22.4
(72.3)		21.7
(71.1)		21.1
(70.0)		20.0
(68.0)		19.4
(66.9)		19.8
(67.6)		20.9
(69.6)		21.7
(71.1)		22.6
(72.7)		22.8
(73.0)		21.5
(70.6)
Average rainfall mm (inches)290
(11.4)		237
(9.3)		170
(6.7)		114
(4.5)		108
(4.3)		72
(2.8)		77
(3.0)		54
(2.1)		62
(2.4)		126
(5.0)		190
(7.5)		282
(11.1)		1,782
(70.1)
Source: [8]

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