Province of Central Sumatra Provinsi Sumatera Tengah | |||||||||||||
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Province of Indonesia | |||||||||||||
1948–1957 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Bukittinggi | ||||||||||||
Demonym | Central Sumatran | ||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||
Governor | |||||||||||||
• 1948–1950 | Mohammad Nasroen | ||||||||||||
• 1951–1956 | Ruslan Muljohardjo | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||||
• Established[1] | 15 April 1948 | ||||||||||||
• Riau succeeded, dissolved into 2 more provinces in 1958[2] | 9 August 1957 | ||||||||||||
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Central Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatera Tengah) was a province in Indonesia whose territories included present day West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, and the Riau Islands.[3] Since 1957 this province has not been registered as an Indonesian province after it was dissolved by Ordinance-as-Act (Undang-undang Darurat) No. 19/1957 and divided into the provinces of West Sumatra, Riau and Jambi through Law No. 61/1958 by the Sukarno government.[2]