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✶ Provinces · 38 since 2022 · Kepmendagri codes

Thirty-eight provinces,
three time zones.

Indonesia is a unitary republic of 38 provinces, from Aceh at the northern tip of Sumatra to the six provinces of Papua in the east. Each sends its share of the DPR's 580 members, chosen in 84 districts, and four members of the DPD whatever its size. Java holds 57% of the 203.056.748 electors on six provinces; the vote abroad (1.365.433 electors) is counted with Jakarta's second district.

Map · 2024

Province
by province.

Timor-LesteSingaporePhilippinesPapua New GuineaMalaysiaBruneiAustraliaAustralia
  • 1 · Anies–Muhaimin
  • 2 · Prabowo–Gibran

Tap or hover a province for its figures; click to open it below. KPU decrees 1043, 1204 and 1205/2024.

Boundaries: geoBoundaries (OCHA ROAP / BPS, CC BY 3.0 IGO); Papua's 2022 provinces drawn from their regencies. Neighbours: Natural Earth. Indonesia's internationally recognised borders; neighbours in grey.

Explorer

One province
at a time.

Java · code 31 · ID-JK

DKI Jakarta

Jakarta · special status: Jakarta

Governor Pramono Anung PDI-P · vice: Rano Karno
Capital
Jakarta
Province since
1961
Population (2025)
10.678.000
Area
662 km²
Time zone
WIB · UTC+7
Regencies · cities
1 · 5
Districts · villages · wards
44 · 0 · 267
Electors (DPT 2024)
8.252.897

DPR · 21 seats in 3 dapil

  • DKI Jakarta I 6
  • DKI Jakarta II 7
  • DKI Jakarta III 8

First in the DPR vote: PKS 18,00%, then PDI-P 15,72%, Gerindra 11,34%.

President 2024 · turnout 78,78%

  • Prabowo–Gibran 41,7%
  • Anies–Muhaimin 41,1%
  • Ganjar–Mahfud 17,3%

DPD · 4 senators

  1. Fahira Idris 745.841
  2. Happy Djarot 656.815
  3. Dailami Firdaus 613.721
  4. Achmad Azran 456.247

Won with 50.07% in the first round (Jakarta requires more than 50%). Its 5 cities and 1 regency are administrative units headed by appointees.

UU 29/2007 (DKI Jakarta); UU 2/2024 on the Special Region of Jakarta (DKJ), amended by UU 151/2024; UU 3/2022 and UU 21/2023 on the capital Nusantara

  • Still the capital: the move to Nusantara (IKN) in East Kalimantan takes effect only when a presidential decree is issued, and none had been as of Nov 2026 (Constitutional Court 71/PUU-XXIV/2026, 12 May 2026)
  • UU 2/2024 sets Jakarta's future status as a special region; its Art. 73 brings it fully into force only with that decree
  • The governor must win more than 50% of the vote, or face a run-off between the top two (UU 2/2024 Art. 10)
  • Autonomy sits at the provincial level only: the five cities and the Thousand Islands regency are administrative, with mayors and a regent appointed by the governor (Art. 13), and no DPRD of their own

Photos: Khofifah Indar Parawansa — Unknown, CC BY 3.0 · Anwar Hafid — Pemerintah Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah, CC BY 4.0 · Mathius Fakhiri — Pemerintah Provinsi Papua, CC BY 4.0 · Elisa Kambu — Unknown, CC BY 3.0 . Others public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Governors: regional-head list after the 20 February 2025 inauguration (Setneg) and Wikipedia (secondary); counts of districts, villages and wards: Kepmendagri 300.2.2-2430/2025 as transcribed in an open dataset (not yet checked against the decree). Population and area: BPS figures via Wikipedia (secondary).

In three dimensions · Kursi Nusantara

580 seats,
stacked where they sit.

Each disc is one DPR seat, stacked on its province and coloured by time zone. Switch to the electors view to see, as a glass sleeve, how many seats each province would have if they followed its share of registered electors exactly. Papua Pegunungan has 435.471 electors per seat, Papua Selatan 122.423: the law gives every dapil at least three seats (art. 187), so small provinces weigh more.

  • WIB · UTC+7
  • WITA · UTC+8
  • WIT · UTC+9
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38 provinces · 580 seats · one disc per seat · KPU decree 1205/2024 (seats); decree 1043/2024 (DPT, presidential election)

Island groups

Where the
voters are.

Island group Provinces Population 2025 Electors DPR seats Share of seats
Sumatra 10 62.259.500 43.021.576 126 21,7%
Java 6 158.079.100 115.373.669 306 52,8%
Lesser Sunda Islands 3 15.935.000 11.196.282 33 5,7%
Kalimantan 5 17.951.300 12.201.793 40 6,9%
Sulawesi 6 21.044.800 14.611.785 50 8,6%
Maluku 2 3.344.400 2.294.990 7 1,2%
Papua 6 5.824.500 4.356.653 18 3,1%

Population: BPS mid-2025 estimates via Wikipedia (secondary), 284.438.600 in all. Electors: the final voter list (DPT) for the presidential election, KPU decree 1043/2024; without the 1.365.433 registered abroad.

From 26 to 38 · since 1999

New provinces,
by law.

A province is created by an act of the DPR (undang-undang). East Timor, annexed in 1976, left after its 1999 referendum and is the independent state of Timor-Leste. Since then twelve provinces have been carved from others, the last four in 2022, when Papua was divided again.

  1. 1999 Maluku Utara UU 46/1999 · from Maluku
  2. 2000 Kepulauan Bangka Belitung UU 27/2000 · from Sumatera Selatan
  3. 2000 Banten UU 23/2000 · from Jawa Barat
  4. 2000 Gorontalo UU 38/2000 · from Sulawesi Utara
  5. 2002 Kepulauan Riau UU 25/2002 · from Riau
  6. 2003 Papua Barat UU 45/1999 · from Papua
  7. 2004 Sulawesi Barat UU 26/2004 · from Sulawesi Selatan
  8. 2012 Kalimantan Utara UU 20/2012 · from Kalimantan Timur
  9. 2022 Papua Selatan UU 14/2022 · from Papua
  10. 2022 Papua Tengah UU 15/2022 · from Papua
  11. 2022 Papua Pegunungan UU 16/2022 · from Papua
  12. 2022 Papua Barat Daya UU 29/2022 · from Papua Barat

Years and laws: scripts/indonesia/ref.ts, from the laws' texts for 1999 onward.

Asymmetric autonomy

Four special
regions.

Aceh

UU 11/2006 on the Government of Aceh (after the 2005 Helsinki MoU)

  • Residents may form local political parties (Art. 75) — six were on the 2024 ballot for Aceh's own assemblies
  • Provincial laws are called qanun; the assembly is the DPRA (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Aceh), regency assemblies DPRK
  • Applies elements of Islamic law (syariat) under qanun
  • A Wali Nanggroe heads customary institutions; it is not a political or government office (Art. 96)
  • Elections run by an Aceh Independent Election Commission (KIP Aceh) within the KPU system
  • Villages are called gampong

Source 1 ↗Source 2 ↗

Yogyakarta Special Region

UU 13/2012 on the Special Status of Yogyakarta

  • The governor must be the reigning Sultan Hamengku Buwono and the vice-governor the reigning Duke (Adipati) Paku Alam (Art. 18(1)(c))
  • They are confirmed by the DPRD and installed by the President, not elected, for five-year terms with no term limit
  • The only province without a gubernatorial election in 2024; regents and mayors are elected as elsewhere
  • Special powers over land, culture and spatial planning

Source 1 ↗

Jakarta

UU 29/2007 (DKI Jakarta); UU 2/2024 on the Special Region of Jakarta (DKJ), amended by UU 151/2024; UU 3/2022 and UU 21/2023 on the capital Nusantara

  • Still the capital: the move to Nusantara (IKN) in East Kalimantan takes effect only when a presidential decree is issued, and none had been as of Nov 2026 (Constitutional Court 71/PUU-XXIV/2026, 12 May 2026)
  • UU 2/2024 sets Jakarta's future status as a special region; its Art. 73 brings it fully into force only with that decree
  • The governor must win more than 50% of the vote, or face a run-off between the top two (UU 2/2024 Art. 10)
  • Autonomy sits at the provincial level only: the five cities and the Thousand Islands regency are administrative, with mayors and a regent appointed by the governor (Art. 13), and no DPRD of their own

Source 1 ↗Source 2 ↗Source 3 ↗Source 4 ↗

Papua (six provinces)

UU 21/2001 on Special Autonomy for Papua, as amended by UU 2/2021; UU 14, 15, 16 and 29/2022 creating new provinces

  • Governors and vice-governors must be Orang Asli Papua — indigenous Papuans (UU 21/2001 Art. 12)
  • A Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) of customary, women's and religious representatives in each province gives consent on matters affecting indigenous rights and on new provinces
  • Seats in the provincial assembly (DPRP) are added for indigenous Papuans by appointment, equal to a quarter of the elected seats (UU 2/2021 Art. 6)
  • Special autonomy funds from the national budget
  • In 2022 Papua and West Papua were divided into six: Papua, West Papua, South Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua and Southwest Papua
  • In parts of the highlands, communities may vote by the 'noken' system, in which customary leaders cast votes on behalf of the group — recognised by the Constitutional Court

Source 1 ↗Source 2 ↗ · partly secondary

Down to the village · Kepmendagri No. 300.2.2-2430 Tahun 2025

From 38 provinces
to 83.762 villages and wards.

  1. 38 Provinces · provinsi Governor (gubernur), elected
  2. 416 Regencies · kabupaten Regent (bupati), elected
  3. 98 Cities · kota Mayor (wali kota), elected
  4. 7.285 Districts · kecamatan Camat, appointed civil servant
  5. 75.266 Villages · desa Village head (kepala desa), elected
  6. 8.496 Urban wards · kelurahan Lurah, appointed civil servant

Regencies (rural) and cities are the level that runs primary and junior secondary schools, health centres and local roads, with their own elected head and assembly (DPRD). Districts and urban wards are administrative units run by appointed officials; villages elect a head for eight years and a village council (BPD). Counts as of the Home Affairs decree of 23 June 2025, as transcribed in an open dataset (not checked against the decree's annex). How each level is governed is on the government page.