Karanganyar Regency

Karanganyar is a regency ( _id. kabupaten) in the southeastern part of Central Java province in Indonesia, north of Surakarta. Its capital is Karanganyar.

Geography

Karanganyar Regency is located in the south east of Central Java, Indonesia. It is near East Java Province, Sragen district in the north, the districts of Wonogiri and Sukoharjo in the south, and Surakarta (Solo) and Boyolali district in the west.

Karanganyar is located between 110º 40́ - 110º 70́ and 7º28́ - 7º46́/ LS, the average height is 511 meters above sea level

Based on data from six weather forecast offices located in Karanganyar, the number of rainy days during 2005 year were 99 days with the average of rainfall 6,017 mm, where the highest rainfall happened in March and lowest happened in July and in August.Fact|date=January 2008

Karanganyar Regency covers 77,378.6374 Ha, which consists of: rice fields (22,844.2597 hectares) and dry ground (54,534.3777 hectares). The rice field consists of irrigated area (7,872.6323 hectares), divided into technical irrigation system area (6,144.2939 hectares), and simple irrigation area (7,134.1251 hectares), and rain fall rice field (1,693.2084 hectares).Meanwhile, areas provided for buildings are 20,732.4406 hectares. Areas for gardening is 17,937.0211 hectares, plantation is 3,251.5006 hectares.

Demography

Education

Based on data from the Culture and Education Department of the Karanganyar Regency, in 2005 there were: 489 primary schools; 7 private primary schools; 49 general secondary schools; 27 private secondary schools; 12 senior high schools; 5 private senior high schools; 2 SMKN units and 22 private vocation schools.

The number of students of primary schools were 81,057 students with 4,483 teachers, which made the student-teacher ratio 1 : 18.08. The numbers of junior high-schools were 37,558 students with 2,818 teachers, with a student-teacher ratio of 1 : 13.33. There were 20,507 high-school students, with 1,639 teachers, which made the student-teacher ratio 1 : 12.51.

Health

Based on data from the Karanganyar Regency Health Bureau in 2005, the number of health facilities consisted of: 3 hospitals, 21 Public Health Centres, 60 Secondary Public Health Centres, 28 nursing-midwiferies, and 30 Clinics. Figures for health-workers: there were 80 physicians, 24 dentists, 275 midwifes, and 241 nurses.

Religion

There are 1821 Mosques, 679 small mosques, 127 Churches, 12 Temples and 1 Vihara.

Heritage & Tourism

Karanganyar is also home of the Mangadeg hill (also known as Truloroyo) Mangkunegaran royal burial complex built upon a small mountain. In the immediate vicinity are the Pablengan ruins of ritual bathing pools, fed by seven natural springs. Several hundred metres away is the the mausoleum complex of former President Suharto Astana Giribangun as well as the alleged final resting place of legendary Javanese leader Raden Mas Samboernowo at the peak of this same hill, titled Argosari [(2007) Vaisulis Justine, "Indonesia", page 206-208. Lonely Planet (2007): ISBN 1741044359] There are a substantial number of especially Javanese tourists who visit the Mangadeg and Argosari cemetries to pray to Samboernowo for assistance in life, particularly business or political affairs, in line with the Kejawen or Kebatinan ancestor-worship/shamanic belief system. [(2008) personnel communications with Pak Aloisius Suwardi, Jakarta and common knowledge]

References

*"Statistics for Kranganyar Regency", various Indonesian governmental Departments including "Departemen Budaya dan Edukasi" and "Departamen Pertanian", 2005 figures.
*"Indonesia". Vaisulis, Justine. Lonely Planet, 2007. ISBN 1741044359 (softcover).
*"Indonesia". Backshall, Robert. Rough Guides (Penguin publishing), 2nd edition, 2003, pp251. ISBN 1858289912 (softcover)