Provinces of Indonesia

Before 2000 there were 27 provinces (bahasa = provinsi) in Indonesia. Since then 6 provinces have been created (Banten, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung, Gorontalo, Maluku Utara and West Papua).

Each province has its own local government, headed by a governor, and has its legislative body. Further more province divided into regencies (bahasa = kabupaten) and cities.

So, here is the list of provinces of Indonesia :

No	Province	In bahasa	Capital
1	Bali	Bali	Denpasar
2	Bangka Belitung	Bangka Belitung	Pangkal Pinang
3	Banten	Banten	Serang
4	Bengkulu	Bengkulu	Bengkulu
5	Central Java	Jawa Tengah	Semarang
6	Central Kalimantan (Borneo)	Kalimantan Tengah	Palangkaraya
7	Central Sulawesi	Sulawesi Tengah	Palu
8	East Java	Jawa Timur	Surabaya
9	East Kalimantan (Borneo)	Kalimantan Timur	Samarinda
10	East Nusa Tenggara	Nusa Tenggara Timur	Kupang
11	Gorontalo	Gorontalo	Gorontalo
12	Jakarta Special Capital Region	DKI Jakarta	Jakarta
13	Jambi	Jambi	Jambi
14	Lampung	Lampung	Bandar Lampung
15	Moluccas	Maluku	Ambon
16	Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam	Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam	Banda Aceh
17	North Moluccas	Maluku Utara	Ternate
18	North Sulawesi	Sulawesi Utara	Manado
19	North Sumatra	Sumatera Utara	Medan
20	Papua	Papua	Jayapura
21	Riau	Riau	Pekanbaru
22	Riau Islands	Kepulauan Riau	Tanjung Pinang
23	Southeast Sulawesi	Sulawesi Tenggara	Kendari
24	South Kalimantan (Borneo)	Kalimantan Selatan	Banjarmasin
25	South Sulawesi	Sulawesi Selatan	Makassar
26	South Sumatra	Sumatera Selatan	Palembang
27	West Java	Jawa Barat	Bandung
28	West Kalimantan (Borneo)	Kalimantan Barat	Pontianak
29	West Nusa Tenggara	Nusa Tenggara Barat	Mataram
30	West Papua	Papua Barat	Manokwari
31	West Sulawesi	Sulawesi Barat	Mamuju
32	West Sumatra	Sumatera Barat	Padang
33	Yogyakarta Special Region	D.I. Yogyakarta	Yogyakarta