Penajam
Penajam, is an administrative district (kecamatan) of East Kalimantan province of Indonesia; it includes the administrative capital of Penajam North Paser Regency on Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.
Penajam, is an administrative district (kecamatan) of East Kalimantan province of Indonesia; it includes the administrative capital of Penajam North Paser Regency on Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. As at mid 2025, it was inhabited by 100,053 people, and currently has a total land area of 1,207.37 km2. Its district seat is located at the village of Nipah-Nipah.
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Getting to Penajam
- Airports
- Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan (BPN), 14 km
- Banjarbaru → Penajam325 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · Rp859,460–1,332,730
- Makassar → Penajam525 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · Rp1,051,360–1,629,960
- Surabaya → Penajam802 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · Rp1,278,180–1,981,280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Penajam
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Penajam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe angkot route 7 is passing in front of the airport to Terminal Damai (also named Bus Terminal Permai), Rp 8,000, about a 20-min drive.
- Get inThis port is the second busiest port in East Kalimantan, serving passenger Pelni ferries.
- Get inGet to the terminal with minibus #6 (dark blue) which plies the coastal road.
- Get aroundList of taxi companies and their call centre number: City Taxi ( or ) Mawar () Kalung Mas () Globalindo Taxi () Public transportation in Balikpapan consists of small minibus named angkutan kota or angkot for short.
- Get aroundLocals often call angkot as taxi and metered taxi as taxi argo.
From Wikivoyage: Balikpapan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Penajam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Penajam
Penajam is 7 km from Balikpapan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.