Place

West Pontianak

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

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Every way there

Jakarta → West Pontianak
742 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · Rp1,285,320–1,993,650
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Batam → West Pontianak
606 km · quickest by air, 8h 23m · Rp1,746,390–2,708,500
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Banjarbaru → West Pontianak
719 km · quickest by air, 6h 43m · Rp1,150,100–1,783,520
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around West Pontianak, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What West Pontianak has

YScheduled flightsPontianak (PNK), 20 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesDwikora Pontianak, 5 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Pontianak, 4 km.

-0.008°, 109.297°

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.

How locals move

Getting around West Pontianak the local way

Get inThe same ferry then continues to Semarang, Java.

From Wikivoyage: Pontianak, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wadaihangit (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.