Poso Regency
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Poso Regency Kabupaten Poso |
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| Motto: Sintuwu Maroso | ||
 Location of Poso Regency in Central Sulawesi Province |
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| Country | Indonesia | |
| Province | Central Sulawesi | |
| Capital | Poso | |
| Government | ||
| • Bupati | Darmin A. Sigilipu | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 209,252 | |
| Time zone | WITA (UTC+8) | |
| Area code(s) | +62 452 | |
| Website | http://posokab.go.id/ | |
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Poso Regency is a regency of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. The principal town lies at Poso.
In 1999, Morowali Regency and Tojo Una-Una Regency were created out of portions of Poso Regency. In 2007 there were calls to divide the remaining Poso Regency into two regencies in order to overcome religious-based conflicts; one regency would by named Tentena Regency (comprising the first eleven kecamatan listed below, while the remaining Poso Regency would consist of the last seven kecamatan listed below
The Poso Regency was divided at 2010 into eighteen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population.
Poso District Religious Office noted that the majority of the population in Poso is Protestant, with the number of followers as much as 122.389 inhabitants. This is followed by 95.417 Muslims, 9.739 Hindus, 1.425 Roman Catholics and 267 Buddhist, respectively. The number of places of worship in Poso, consisting of 270 mosques, 500 Protestant churches, 36 Catholic churches and 71 temples.
Islam is the first religion which spread widely in Poso. Although the process is not known, Islam certainly been entered in Poso around the end of the 18th century. The migration of Mandar tribe of western Sulawesi region also proved influential in this process. This process culminated in the events in which Mandar people living in the area of Kadombuku (now Lage), forcing the local tribal people to convert to Islam and end up with a series of tribal wars between Mandar and Kadombuku. Christianity began to spread in the late 19th century, when a Dutch missionary, Albert Christian Kruyt sent by a Christian mission agency of the Netherlands Missionary Society to begin missionary in Central Sulawesi. After working for seventeen years, their efforts paid off when hundreds of people from To Pebato baptized on Christmas Eve, December 25, 1909.Central Sulawesi Christian Church (GKST) is a church organization that was established on October 18, 1947 in Tentena. GKST serves Central, West and South Sulawesi. In 2006, 188 thousand people registered to become members, and there are 376 congregations served by 625 priests.
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