castle
Istano Basa Pagaruyung
A reconstructed Minangkabau royal palace with sweeping buffalo-horn roofs and carved timber walls, rebuilt after a 2007 lightning fire. Three storeys of interiors are open to visitors.
47 km · about 55 min drive
AsiaIndonesiaWest Sumatra
Sijunjung
West Sumatra, Indonesia · Asia
About Sijunjung
Sijunjung sits on the route: 10 minutes from Muaro, 47km from Istano Basa Pagaruyung.
Sijunjung is in West Sumatra, Indonesia, with about 28,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Muaro, about 5 km away.
Sijunjung Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Sijunjung; pronounced [kabuˌpat̪ɛn siˈd͡ʒuɲd͡ʒʊŋ]) formerly known as Sawahlunto Sijunjung (Indonesian pronunciation: [sawahˌlun̪t̪o siˈd͡ʒuɲd͡ʒʊŋ]), is an inland regency (kabupaten) in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The Regency covers an area of 3,150.58 km2, and it had a populationRead more
of 201,823 at the 2010 census and 235,045 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 249,790 (comprising 126,310 males and 123,480 females). The regency seat is the town of Muaro Sijunjung. The regency was created from the former Sawahlunto Regency, after the districts comprising Sawahlunto town became a city, administratively separated from the regency, which was then renamed.
Most of the people work in trade or as government employees, and the rest are farmers. There are few university graduates because most people are not interested in continuing their studies for reasons of economic and environmental culture. Many of the natural resources of this regency are not explored and utilized because of the mountainous geography.
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Within an hour or so of Sijunjung: Istano Basa Pagaruyung (47 km).
Where is Sijunjung?
Sijunjung is in West Sumatra, Indonesia, about 5 km from Muaro.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 27,786
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- West Sumatra
- Timezone
- Asia/Jakarta
- Coordinates
- -0.7005, 100.9774
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1 notable place within an hour's drive.
Driving roads near Sijunjung
- 75 kmHarau ValleyA flat rice-farming floor hemmed by 100-metre granite cliffs with waterfalls dropping straight off the rim, on the road east from Payakumbuh. A nature reserve since Dutch colonial times.
- 77 kmKelok 9 BridgeSpectacular stacked flyover in West Sumatra that spirals a highway up a jungle gorge, replacing the old nine hairpin bends: Indonesia's most photographed piece of road engineering.
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