The implementation of Republic of Indonesia Law No. 22/1999 on Regional Government
and Law No.
33/1999 on Balance Fund between central and regional government
had motivated
people in some region to appear the aspiration to create a new
autonomy regency/city
government. People had a hope that, by realizing a new autonomy regency/city government will have
a chance more
widely to keep their own region in realizing the increasing of their
social welfare.
The forming of Samosir Regency in Sumatera Utara Province with area coverage are the entire of
Samosir Island area
plus some of area in Sumatera Island were one of Toba Samosir
Government’s agenda.
Therefore, due to Law No. 22 year of 1999, the preparation of
forming Samosir Regency
will be done sooner. The proposal of Toba Samosir
diffusion in to become 2 regencies based on
people power
of Samosir and The Regional People’s Representative Council
of Toba Samosir’s
shuffle were :
1. Toba Samosir Regency (main
regency),
consist of 10 the existing
subdistricts, they
were Balige, Laguboti, Silaen, Habinsaran, Porsea, Lumbanjulu, Uluan, Pintu Pohan Meranti,
Ajibata, and
Borbor.
2. Samosir Regency (new
regency),
consist of 9 the existing
subdistricts, they
were : Pangururan, Ronggur Nihuta, Sianjur Mula-mula,
Simanindo, Nainggolan,
Onan Runggu, Palipi, Harian, and Sitio-tio.
The aspiration and argumentation
of people
that had been confirmed to The Regional People’s Representative
Council of
Toba Samosir, Government of Toba Samosir, and Government of
Sumatera Utara
Province, each, had been followed up by some decrees issued, such :
1. Decree of The Regional People’s Representative Council of Toba
Samosir No.
4 Year of 2002 on June 20th 2002 on Forming of Samosir Regency.
2. Letter of The Regent of Toba
Samosir No.
1101/Pem/2002 on June 24th 2002 addressed to The Governor of
Sumatera Utara
Province.
3. Letter of The Regent of Toba
Samosir No.
135/1187/Pem/2002 on July 3th 2002 addressed to The Governor of Sumatera Utara Province on
reporting of
the people aspiration of Samosir to form The Samosir Regency.
4. Finally, all of the
argumentation, motion from The Regional People’s Representative Council of Toba
Samosir and
The Regent of Toba Samosir had been accommodated by issuing the
Law No.
36/2003 on December 18th 2003 on Forming of Samosir and Serdang Bedagai Regency.
The Forming of Samosir Regency as
a new
regency definitively, was the first step to start the acceleration of
development in Samosir
area for reaching the higher prosperous of people of Samosir
with the goals
were to endways the people freedom in social entity, to give social
services closely,
to response and also to restruct the Regional Government’s personnel
in doing the
development acceleration process, so that in the short time it was
hoped that Samosir
Regency will be in the same level with the other regencies and able
to lift up the
standard living of people of Samosir Regency, especially, and people
of Sumatera
Utara, generally.
Source: Samosir Regency in Figure 2017 (Kabupaten Samosir Dalam Angka, 2017).
Published by: Statistic Office of Samosir Regency (Badan Pusat Statistik Kabupaten Samosir).
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