Jayawijaya Regency

Jayawijaya Regency Kabupaten Jayawijaya
Regency
Wamena Airport
Seal
Motto(s):  Yogotak Hubuluk Mutuk Hanorogo (Tomorrow Must Be Better Than Today)
Location in Highland Papua
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Coordinates: 4°05′00″S 139°05′00″E / 4.0833°S 139.0833°E / -4.0833; 139.0833
Country	Indonesia
Region	Papua
Province	Highland Papua
Regency seat	Wamena
Government
• Regent	John Richard Banua Rouw [id]
• Vice Regent	Marthin Yogobi [id]
Area
• Total	13,925.31 km2 (5,376.59 sq mi)
Population  (mid 2023 estimate)[1]
• Total	282,497
• Density	20/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Indonesia Eastern Time)
Area code	(+62) 969
Website	jayawijayakab.go.id

Jayawijaya Regency is one of the regencies (kabupaten) in the Indonesian province of Highland Papua. It occupies an area of 13,925.31 km² in the Baliem Valley, situated in the central highlands of the province. It had a population of 196,085 at the 2010 Census,^[2] and 269,553 at the 2020 Census;^[3] the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 282,497.^[1] Its regency seat is the town of Wamena.

As created, Jayawijaya Regency covered an area coincident with the whole of what in 2022 became Highland Papua Province. However, on 11 December 2002 three new Regencies - Bintang Mountains Regency (Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang), Tolikara Regency, and Yahukimo Regency - were created from parts of Jayawijaya Regency. Subsequently on 4 January 2008 another four new Regencies - Lanny Jaya Regency, Central Mamberamo Regency (Kabupaten Mamberamo Tengah), Nduga Regency, and Yalimo Regency - were created from further parts of Jayawijaya Regency. All eight regencies were brought together again in 2022 in the new province of Highland Papua.

At the time of the 2010 Census, the Jayawijaya Regency comprised eleven districts (distrik), listed below with their populations at the 2010 Census. During the following ten years, the number of districts was raised to forty by the splitting of existing districts, and these are all shown below with their current 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 locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 328 rural kampung and 4 urban kelurahan), and its postcode.

Notes: (a) including the three kelurahan of Wamena Kota (Wamena town), Sinakma and Sinapuk. (b) including the kelurahan of Ilokama.

Note that those districts with 2010 populations given in the 2010 Population column (and numbered from 95.01.01 to 95.01.11) were the eleven districts extent in 2010; the remaining twenty-nine districts with no figure given in the 2010 Population column (and numbered from 95.01.12 to 95.01.40) were those created from the original eleven districts subsequent to 2010.

• Statistics publications from Statistics Indonesia (BPS)