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Kuala Kencana
District in Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kuala Kencana (literally "golden estuary")[1] is a district in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. It is the purpose-built company town, managed by Indonesian mineral extraction company PT Freeport Indonesia. The new town was inaugurated by Indonesian President Suharto in 1995.[2] The district covers an area of 860.74 km2 and had a population of 18,290 at the 2010 Census and 27,774 at the 2020 Census.[3]
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Kuala Kencana District
Distrik Kuala Kencana | |
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Country | Indonesia |
Province | Central Papua |
Regency | Mimika Regency |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 27,774 |
Time zone | UTC+9 (IEST) |
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The town features running water and other modern amenities previously rarely seen in Papua, though critics note this has come at a cost of dispossession of indigenous populations and environmental damage.[4]