SULAWESI

Sulawesi (or long term in English: Celebes) is an island in the Indonesian territory that lies between the island of Borneo and the Maluku Islands. With an area of 174 600 km ², the island of Sulawesi is the world's 11th largest. In Indonesia only Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua wider than the Sulawesi region, while the population only in terms of Java and Sumatra is greater than the population of Sulawesi.Sulawesi's name is derived from the stake is estimated (the island) and iron, which may refer to the iron ore trade practices produced mines located around Lake Matano, near Sorowako, East Luwu. [1] While the Portuguese were the first foreign nation to use Celebes names to refer to Sulawesi.ulawesi is the fourth largest island in Indonesia after Papua, Kalimantan and Sumatra with a land area of ​​174.6 thousand square kilometers. The unique shape resembles a spider rose or a large letter K that stretches from north to south and three peninsula that stretches to the northeast, east and southeast. The island is bounded by the Strait of Makassar in the west and separated from Borneo and the Maluku Islands are separated also from the Maluku Sea. Sulawesi is bordered on the west by Borneo, the Philippines in the north, south Flores, Timor and the Moluccas in the south east.

At the time of the independence of Indonesia, Sulawesi province with the status as an autonomous form of government under the leadership of a governor. Sulawesi province when it had its capital in Makassar, the Governor DR.GSSJ Ratulangi.The provincial government system was a pioneer for further development, as to be beyond the time period in Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia State (NIT) and then the NIT become a federation of states of the Republic of Indonesia (RIS). When RIS was disbanded and returned to the Republic of Indonesia, Sulawesi, a province reaffirmed their status. Status Sulawesi Province was then continued until the year 1960. Beginning in 1960 consisted of two pieces of Sulawesi Provinces, namely: Provinces of South Sulawesi, Southeast and Provinces of North-Central Sulawesi. In 1964 established the Central Sulawesi Provinces, which is separated from the Provinces of North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi Provinces while the North-Central Provinces changed to North Sulawesi. Similarly, Southeast Sulawesi Provinces formed separately from the Provinces of South-East Sulawesi, while the Provinces of South-East Sulawesi turned into South Sulawesi Provinces. Beginning in 1999 the Regional level I use the term is eliminated, so that the four areas mentioned above was called to be changed each province. Entering the era of the Reformation with the rise of the regional growth with respect to local autonomy, Gorontalo province formed in 2000, and then the province of West Sulawesi in 2004.Governance in Sulawesi is divided into six provinces in order of creation is the province of South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Sulawesi and West. Central Sulawesi is the largest province with an area of ​​68.033 square kilometers of land and sea area reaches 189.480 square kilometers which includes the peninsula of the eastern and northern part of the peninsula and islands in the Gulf of Tomini Togean and islands in the Banggai Islands in the Gulf of Tolo. Most of the land in the mountainous province (42.80% is above the altitude of 500 meters above sea level) and Katopasa is the highest mountain with an altitude of 2835 meters above sea level.