Musi Rawas Regency

In February 2010, Musi Rawas was subjected to serious flooding which submerged over 6,000 homes and affected thousands of hectares of land.^[4]

On 29 April 2013 there were a clash between local people from the northern part of Musi Rawas Regency (who blockaded the national road between Jambi and Palembang) and policemen who tried to lift the blockade. After 11 hours of negotiation had failed, four people were killed and six policemen were shot with traditional guns by protesters. People from northern Musi Rawas had called for a new regency to be split from the current Musi Rawas Regency;^[5] this new regency, called North Musi Rawas Regency (abbreviated often to Muratara Regency), was created in July 2013.^[6]

As at 2010, the Musi Rawas Regency was subdivided into twenty-one districts (kecamatan), but on 10 July 2013 the northernmost seven districts (Rupit, Rawas Ulu, Nibung, Rawas Ilir, Karang Dapo, Karang Jaya, and Ulu Rawas) were split off to form a new North Musi Rawas Regency (Musi Rawas Utara). The remaining fourteen districts are listed below with their areas^[1] and their populations at the 2010 Census^[2] and 2020 Census,^[3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2024.^[1] The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (comprising 186 rural desa and 13 urban kelurahan), and its post codes.

Note: The 13 kelurahan in this regency comprise 11 of the district administrative centres (those asterisked above by *), together with Mangun Harjo (in Purwodadi District) and Talang Ubi (in Megang Sakti District).

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  Houseboat on the Rawas River in what was then the Rawas District, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, circa 1878

• Napal Licin, an area in Rawas