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Malang Overview
As well as the development of other regions in Indonesia, Malang had begun to grow and to develop since the Colonial Government came to Indonesia. Public facilities are planned well to require the colonial?s family. This discriminative impression still exists until now. For example, only colonial of Holland and European are able to enjoy around The Ijen Boulevard Area, while the local resident (pribumi ? in Bahasa) must have been satisfied to live in the sub urban area with inadequate facility. That housing area seems to keep a mystery until now which invites the Colonials who have ever been lived there for memorable rendezvous.
Train transportation system had begun to develop on 1879 and Malang did grow rapidly since that time. Several of social needs was increased especially the needs of space for doing activities. Consequently, there was a land use changing, built up area has grown sporadically. Land use changing was going to be fast, such as farming zone has been changed its use to housing and industry.
At the same time, urbanization is going on and on. The housing needs have been increasing out of the government capacity while the urban people have limited economic capacity. Furthermore, there were slums and squatters area which usually grew up around the commercial zone, trough the green belt, around the river side, above the rail, and any of illegal ? disowned land.
For few years, those areas have changed and developed as the urban villages and become environmentally degrading with all of the derivate impacts. This phenomenon is inclined to increase and it is difficult to imagine what would be happened if this problem is ignored.
Historical Overview of Government :
- Malang was a Kingdom which centrally lived at Dinoyo, with Gajayana as the king
- Holland Colonial came to city on 1767
- The colonial centrally located around Kali Brantas on 1821
- Malang has a Resident Assistant on 1824
- Housing development was took placed on 1882 in the west side of city, and Alun-alun of the city was built and planned
- Malang was stated as Kota Praja on April 1, 1914
- Malang was hold by Japan on March 8, 1942
- Malang was regionally united to Republic of Indonesia on September 21, 1945
- Malang was hold by Holland on July 22, 1947
- Republic of Indonesia take on Malang again on March 2, 1947
- Malang is autonomously being the local city government of Malang on January 1, 2001
Titles Hold on Malang
1. Paris of Java
Malang has the beautiful nature with its cool ? fresh air and clean city as the ?PARIS? of East Java
2. Traveling City
Malang is the place for travelling around and spending holidays as this city has a nice and beautiful nature, clean, cool air and quite environment, also has adequate tourism facilities.
3. Rest and Relax City
Peach atmosphere of the city is need to have some rest especially for people out of Malang ? as a tourist or just visiting their families.
4. City of Education
Malang, whose condition is quite environmentally with friendly local people, cheap living cost and adequate educational facility, is an interesting place for studying.
5. Military City
Local government has built places of military training, barracks and military messes around Lapangan Rampai after Malang was chosen as Warrior City. When Malang was hold by Japan, ?Sundeng? Airport has been built on today?s Perumnas Housing.
6. Historical City
Malang is the city which keeps on the mystery of the embryo of big kingdoms like Singosari, Kediri, Mojopahit, Demak and Mataram. The history of the beginning of the Indonesian freedom is noted in Malang and this city also nominated as the candidate for the national capital of Indonesia.
7. Flower City
Glowing up the flowers in every side of the city and in every span of people?s land is the dream of every local people in Malang.
Population and Sociology
Number of Population
The Width of Malang City is about 110.06 Km2. The population is about 782.110 persons until the end of June 2005. The density is about 7106 persons/Km2. The population is spread on five sub districts (Klojen = 125.824 persons, Blimbing = 167.301 persons, Kedungkandang = 152.285 persons, Sukun = 174.184 persons, dan Lowokwaru = 162.516 persons), and 57 urban villages, 10 villages, 505 community group (RW ? in Bahasa) and 3.649 Neighborhood Unit (RT ? in Bahsa).
Population Composition
Local ethnic of Malang is known as religious people, dynamic, hard worker, honest and very proud of their identity as people of Malang. The population composition of local ? original people are coming from various ethnics (especially Javanese, Madura people, little number of Arabian and Chinese).
Religion
Almost of people in Malang are Moslem, followed by Christian, Catholic, Hindu and Buddhist. They are always living together tolerantly although they have different beliefs in order to support the development of Malang. There are many historical religious building in Malang such as Masjid Jami (Masjid Agung), Churchs (Alun-Alun, Kayutangan and Ijen) and Chinese Building (Klenteng ? in Bahasa) in old town. Malang is also being the center of religion education with many of Islamic Boarding Schools ? Pesanteren, and Bible Seminary which is famous in Indonesia.
Art and Culture
Ethnical and cultural assets of Malang have influenced the existing traditional art. One of the famous traditional dances is Tari Topeng, although now this is exterminated by the modern art. This style of art is the combination of West Java (Solo, Yogya) and Southside of East Java (Ponorogo, Tulungagung, Blitar) also Blambangan (Pasuruan, Probolinggo, Situbondo, Banyuwangi). For furthermore information about areas around Malang, please visit: Areas Around Malang City.
Language
Javanese with East Java accent and Maduranese are the daily language of people in Malang. In the young generation are usually use Malang accent called ?Boso Walikan?. This is saying words in inversion pronunciation, for instance: Malang is said Ngalam. Speaking style in Malang is known without any customs ? straight to the point and sometimes sounds impolite like East Javanese style in generally. This is the people?s expression in Malang which been honest without any customs.
New Comer / Urban People
Most of the new comers/urban people coming to Malang are merchants, workers and students who do not live permanently in Malang and will go back to their hometown after certain years. Most of them ? merchants and workers ? are coming from some areas around Malang, while students are coming from other regions outside of Malang especially from Eastside of Indonesia such as Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Timor Leste, Irian Jaya, Maluku, Celebes ? Sulawesi and Borneo ? Kalimantan.
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