Kuta Cingkam II – small settlement in Lawe Alas District of Aceh Tenggara Regency
Kuta Cingkam II is an Indonesian settlement located in the southeastern part of Aceh Province in Sumatra. Administratively, it belongs to Lawe Alas District (Kecamatan Lawe Alas), which is part of Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara, or Southeast Aceh Regency. Based on the region's coordinates (3.4365522° N, 97.8245578° E), the settlement is situated in the northern interior areas of Sumatra, in proximity to the Bukit Barisan mountain range. According to local administrative nomenclature, the settlement's name is "Kuta Cingkam II," which likely designates one unit of a two-part village group (Kuta Cingkam I and II).
General overview
Kuta Cingkam II does not appear as an independent entry in known encyclopedic sources, so detailed, settlement-level data on the location are not currently verifiable from publicly available literature. Broader context is provided by data at the Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara level: the entire regency covers an area of 4,179.12 square kilometers, with a population of 220,860 according to the 2020 census, and an official estimate of 237,910 for mid-2025. The regency's administrative headquarters is Kutacane city, located in Babussalam District. Lawe Alas District, to which Kuta Cingkam II belongs, is situated in the regency's interior, mountainous and river-valley areas. Agricultural products play a determining role in the regency's economy: palm oil, cocoa, coconut, coffee, nutmeg, nuts, and patchouli oil are the most important local commodities. It is likely that Kuta Cingkam II, located in Lawe Alas District, is similarly an agrarian, small village community where livelihoods are predominantly tied to agriculture, though this can only be generalized based on regency-level sources—specific village-level data is unavailable.
Real estate and investment
There are no publicly available, verifiable data on Kuta Cingkam II's real estate market. Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara is generally one of the less urbanized, rural regencies of Aceh Province, where the volume of real estate transactions and development is considerably more modest than in the province's coastal or touristically developed areas. Due to the region's interior, agricultural character, real estate transactions typically occur among local residents and primarily involve the sale and purchase of agricultural land and smaller residential buildings. As an important general framework, it should be noted that in Indonesia, foreign nationals cannot hold full ownership rights (Hak Milik) over real estate; available to them are Hak Pakai (usage rights) and certain commercial property titles, though their details and conditions vary depending on the region and the nature of the property. From an investment perspective, Aceh Tenggara Regency is more a field for agricultural rather than real-estate-based investment, and small, rural villages—as Kuta Cingkam II likely is—typically do not constitute active real estate market investment targets for broader Indonesian or international investor circles.
Safety and security
No publicly available, settlement-level statistics or police data exist regarding Kuta Cingkam II's public safety situation. Aceh Province generally applies sharia-based local regulations alongside Indonesian law, which determines the province's overall social order and public life; this applies equally to Aceh Tenggara Regency. For small villages located in the regency's rural, interior areas, public safety generally takes shape within the frameworks of local community norms and traditional village administration (adat), but no concrete data—neither positive nor negative—can be stated on a factual basis from available sources. In the general Indonesian rural context, similarly sized and characterized villages are typically characterized by low crime rates, but this cannot be confirmed for Kuta Cingkam II due to lack of sources.
Tourist attractions
No locally or nearby tourist attractions clearly linked to Kuta Cingkam II can be identified from available sources. At the Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara level, however, two notable natural assets are known: the Alas River (Sungai Alas) and the Butan River are the regency's major waterways and defining landscape elements. Additionally, the regency encompasses part of the Leuser ecosystem, one of the largest and ecologically most significant rainforest regions in Southeast Asia, internationally recognized as a protected area within the framework of Gunung Leuser National Park. These natural values may be attractive primarily to those interested in ecological and nature-based tourism, but no verifiable data is available regarding Kuta Cingkam II's precise relationship to specific attractions and accessibility options. Starting from the region's capital, Kutacane city, the area's natural attractions are generally accessed through organized tours or with the assistance of local guides.
Summary
Kuta Cingkam II is a small, rural settlement in the southeastern interior areas of Aceh Province in Sumatra, within the administrative unit of Kecamatan Lawe Alas, as part of Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara. No independent, verifiable source material on the village is publicly available, so the description is based primarily on regency-level data. The region has an agricultural character, and proximity to the Leuser ecosystem represents natural value for the region as a whole, though real estate market activity and tourism are currently modest in volume in these interior areas of the regency.
