It became an occasional port of call for the EIC's East Indiamen. The trading post was never profitable for the British, being hampered by a location which Europeans found unpleasant, and by an inability to find sufficient pepper to buy. In 1714 the British built Fort Marlborough, which still stands. The English East India Company established a pepper-trading center and garrison at Bengkulu (Bencoolen) in 1685. The first European visitors to the area were the Portuguese, followed by the Dutch in 1596. Historial Site of UNESCO, Fort Marlborough located in Bengkulu City. However, it is less developed than other provinces in Sumatra. Bengkulu has many natural resources such as coal and gold, and has big and potential geothermal resources.
Bengkulu has 525 kilometres of coastline along the Indian Ocean on its western side, from Dusun Baru Pelokan in Muko-Muko Regency to Tebing Nasal in Kaur Regency. By 2014, the province is positioned 28th highest in gross domestic product and 20th highest in life expectancy, 70.35 years.īengkulu also includes offshore Mega Island and Enggano Island in the Indian Ocean. According to a release by Badan Pusat Statistik, it has the eleventh highest Human Development Index among the provinces, with a score of about 0.744 in 2013. Bengkulu is also the 26th largest province by population in Indonesia, with 1,715,518 inhabitants at the 2010 Census and 2,010,670 at the 2020 Census.
Spread over 19,813 km 2, it is bordered by the provinces of West Sumatra to the north, Jambi to the northeast, Lampung to the southeast, and South Sumatra to the east, and by the Indian Ocean to the northwest, south, southwest, and west.īengkulu is the 25th largest province by area it is divided into nine regencies and the city of Bengkulu, the capital and largest city. 9 of 1967 and was finalized by Government Regulation No. It was formed on 18 November 1968 by separating out the former Bengkulu Residency area from the province of South Sumatra under Law No. It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. Rejangese, Javanese, Serawai, Lembak, etc.īengkulu is a province of Indonesia.
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