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West Pontianak

West Pontianak is a district (Indonesian:kecamatan) in Pontianak in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.

West Pontianak
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West Pontianak is a district (Indonesian:kecamatan) in Pontianak in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Covering an area of 16.23 km2 (6.27 sq mi) across four kelurahan (sub-districts)–Pal Lima, Sungai Jawi Dalam, Sungai Jawi Luar, and Sungai Beliung, it had a population of 151,553 residents in 2024.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to West Pontianak

Airports
Supadio (PNK), 20 km · Kuching (KCH), 204 km
  • Jakarta → West Pontianak
    742 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · Rp1,285,320–1,993,650
  • Batam → West Pontianak
    606 km · quickest by air, 8h 23m · Rp1,746,390–2,708,500
  • Banjarbaru → West Pontianak
    719 km · quickest by air, 6h 43m · Rp1,150,100–1,783,520
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Pontianak

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 West Pontianak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe same ferry then continues to Semarang, Java.

From Wikivoyage: Pontianak, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Anambas IslandsID

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    495 km
  2. 02
    Tanjung Pinang and BintanID

    9 ways of moving, 49 sources

    548 km
  3. 03
    TiomanMY

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    649 km
  4. 04
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    670 km
  5. 05
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    741 km

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Next door to West Pontianak

West Pontianak is 4 km from Pontianak, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.