Kuala Kencana is a district in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. It is the purpose-built company town, managed by Indonesian mineral extraction company Freeport-McMoRan. The new town was inaugurated by Indonesian President Suharto in 1995. The district covers an area of 860.74 km2 and had a population of 18,290 at the 2010 Census and 27,774 at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
The town features running water and other modern amenities previously rarely seen in Papua, though critics note this has come at a cost of dispossession of indigenous populations and environmental damage.
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