Pontang

Pontang is a district in the Banten province on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Pontang
District
Country near Madrasah Alkhairiyah Panecekan
Pontang
Location in Java
Coordinates: 6.048754°S 106.269543°E / -6.048754; 106.269543
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceBanten
RegencySerang
Population
 (2010)
 • Total48,582

Location

The Ciujung, a river, enters the sea at Pontang.[1] The Ciujung discharges into the 120 square kilometres (46 sq mi) Banten Bay.[2]

Historical

Pontang port and the Ciujung river used to be important for carrying merchandise into the interior.[3] Tomé Pires, who wrote of the region around 1515, said Pontang was one of the busy and crowded ports of the Sunda kingdom. The harbor was smaller than that of Banten, but the only one where large ships could anchor.[3] The city was beautiful, with the harbor at the river bank near the sea shore. Rice, pepper and food were sold. To guard against Muslim influence the king banned trade with Muslim merchants from Java.[3]

By the end of the 17th century the "sultan's canals" had been built for the purpose of irrigation between Markasana and Kanari, and between Pontang, Tanara and Bensung. Presumably some rice fields were irrigated in the mid-18th century.[4] However, until the 20th century sawah that depended on rain covered 2.5 times more land than irrigated sawah in the coastal region.[5]

In 1813 Java was under British control and the land was being leased rather than subject to forced deliveries and contingents as it had been under the Dutch.[6] Major Udney Yule, the British resident, was instructed by Stamford Raffles to grant equitable and moderate leases to the renter class.[6] All the half-yearly rents in the Bantam Residency due on 1 July 1813 were paid on time apart from those due from Pontang, Tanara, Tambakbaya and Trate(?). In this area a drought had caused the rice crop to fail entirely.[7]

Villages

As of 2010 the district was divided into the following villages:[8]

Village2010 pop.
Sukajaya3,803
Sukanegara2,182
Lebak Kepuh2,022
Lebakwangi2,368
Kencana Harapan2,795
Pegandikan2,807
Kalapian2,965
Keserangan3,677
Pulo Kencana3,559
Linduk4,462
Kubang Puji4,428
Singarajan3,753
Pontang3,482
Wanayasa2,079
Domas4,200

Notes
    1. Talens 1999, p. 40.
    2. Green 2003, p. 176.
    3. Titi Surti Nastiti 2006, p. 430.
    4. Atsushi Ota 2003, p. 622.
    5. Atsushi Ota 2003, p. 622-623.
    6. Bastin 1960, p. 301.
    7. Bastin 1960, p. 303.
    8. Population of Indonesia by Village: 2010, p. 1355-56.

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    • Bastin, John (1960), "The Working of the Early Land Rent System in West Java", Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel: Brill, 116 (3), JSTOR 27860245
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    • Talens, Johan (1 January 1999), Een feodale samenleving in koloniaal vaarwater: staatsvorming, koloniale expansie en economische onderontwikkeling in Banten, West Java (1600–1750) (in Dutch), Uitgeverij Verloren, ISBN 90-6550-067-7, retrieved 27 January 2017
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