Maluku (province)

Maluku Province Provinsi Maluku
Province
Clockwise, from top left : Cityscape of Ambon, Ora beach, Banda Islands, Fort Belgica
Seal
Motto: Siwa Lima (Ambonese) (Belongs together)
Location of Maluku in Indonesia
Coordinates: 3°42′18″S 128°10′12″E / 3.70500°S 128.17000°E / -3.70500; 128.17000Coordinates: 3°42′18″S 128°10′12″E / 3.70500°S 128.17000°E / -3.70500; 128.17000
Country	Indonesia
Capital	Ambon
Government
• Governor	Said Assagaff (Golkar)
• Vice Governor	Zeth Sahuburua
Area
• Total	46,914.03 km2 (18,113.61 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	1,708,190
• Density	36/km2 (94/sq mi)
Demographics
• Ethnic groups	Significantly mixed ethnicity; Alfuros, Eurasians, Chinese, Buton, Javanese, other Indonesians
• Religion	Islam (50.8%), Protestantism (41.6%), Catholicism (6.8%), Hinduism (0.4%), Buddhism (<0.1%), Confucianism (<0.1%), others (0,4%)
• Languages	Indonesian, Ambonese, other languages
Time zone	WIT (UTC+9)
Vehicle registration	DE
HDI	0.667 (Medium)
HDI rank	23rd (2014)
Website	malukuprov.go.id

Maluku (Indonesian: Provinsi Maluku) (English: Moluccas) is a province of Indonesia. It comprises the central and southern regions of the Maluku Islands. The main city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon on the small Ambon Island. The province had a population of 1,533,506 at the 2010 Census, and the latest estimate (for January 2014) is 1,708,190.

All the Maluku Islands were part of a single province from 1950 until 1999. In 1999 the northern part of Maluku (then comprising the Maluku Utara Regency, the Halmahera Tengah Regency and the City of Ternate) were split off to form a separate province of North Maluku (Indonesian: Maluku Utara)

The province of Maluku is currently divided into nine regencies (kabupaten) and the two cities (kota) of Ambon and Tual, which form the tenth and eleventh regency-level administrative divisions. The regencies and cities, with their administrative capitals, are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and at the latest (2014) Estimates:

The structure of most of the people of Maluku business field is still dominated by business field agriculture, forestry and fisheries that role by 25.03 percent, then the field of business administration. Government, defence and compulsory Social Security amounted to 20.98 percent, the business field and retail trade, repair cars and motorcycles at 12.59 percent and construction business sector 7.41 percent. Maluku's economy in 2014 has increased compared to growth in 2013. The GDP growth rate of Maluku in 2014 reached 6.70 percent, while in 2013 amounted to 5.26 percent. The highest economic growth in the field of electricity and gas supply business by 31.11 percent. While the business sector GDP is another economy in 2014 experienced positive growth. As for other economic activities sequentially to record positive growth, including the undertaking of mining and quarrying recorded at 21.47 percent; education services business field by 9.52 percent; transportation and warehousing business sector amounted to 8.77 percent; processing industry business sector amounted to 8.42 percent; business field of information and communication 7.62 per cent; financial services business field by 7.61 percent; construction business sector at 7.31 percent; real estate business field by 7.10 percent.