Sikka Regency
Sikka was in the past of kingdom, but now is a regency. The capital is Maumere, on Maumere Bay on the north coast of Flores. The widely of teritorry 1.731,9 km² and the population ± 300.000. The town can be reached by air from Denpasar, Kupang, and Ujungpandang, or by sea from Surabaya, and over land from Ende. The airport is named Wai Oti, long the asphalt base only 1850m so as only could be landed on by the maximal aircraft a kind of Fokker 28 or Fokker 100. The people of Sikka Regency 91% religious Catholic, from 2005 became the new diocese, namely the Maumere diocese, was supervised the Ende archdiocese. The north coastal region was quite often occupied by the resident of the ethnic descendants Tidung-Bajo and Bugis, as well as Java and China. Bare mountains and hills dominated the landscape. Today a reforestation program has turned large parts into green pastures. A prehistoric bronze boat from the Dongsong era, called Dobo or Baobatung is found in a village near Maumere, where it is carefully kept by the people as an ancestral heirloom. On December 12, 1992 Maumere was stricken by the earthquake (6,8 SR) and caused the tsunami, resulted in approximately 2000 people become the disaster victim. The earthquake as a result of by the broken fragment the Philippino slab that was located in the north of Maumere, namely Flores Sea. Most casualties came from the people who lived in the islands in the Maumere gulf, like the Pemanaa Island, Big island and also the Pig island. The people of Sikka Regency spread in 12 subdistricts, the region had a solid population was in the north region that shared a border with Flores Sea, while the south region that shared a border with Sawu Sea/the Hindia Ocean had a rare population. The concentration of the urban people areas is in the Maumere City (the Alok Subdistrict) and the region Encourage in Kewapante. The main potential for the Sikka regency is the salt-water fish, cashew nuts, cocoa, seaweed, candlenuts and acid. The big opportunity that is development of agriculture/the organic plantation - especially for cashew nuts and cocoa. The potential that is not inferior important is nature tourism or echo-tour and the cultural tour. Echo-tour covered the marine tour but also lansekap (saujana). The potential destination tour is diving and sunning in the coast of Kojogete-Island Pemanaa, Pig island, Magepanda Coast, Paga Coast; Sao wisata resort and climbing in the Egon Volcano, also Kimangbuleng Mountain, whereas for the cultural tour there is antique Church the Portugis legacy in Lela subdistrict, cathedral St. Yosef in Maumere and regalia the legacy of the kings of Sikka.
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