Cot Nga – village in Kecamatan Peusangan, Kabupaten Bireuen
Cot Nga is a smaller settlement in Indonesia's Aceh Province, which administratively belongs to Kecamatan Peusangan and forms part of Kabupaten Bireuen. The regency's administrative seat is the city of Bireuen itself. Geographically, it is located in the northern Sumatran coastal zone, and based on its coordinates, it lies approximately 5.2 degrees north of the equator, in the direction of the Strait of Malacca's hinterland. Since systematic, publicly accessible data sources are currently not available directly concerning the settlement itself, the following description relies primarily on verifiable information at the regency and provincial levels.
General overview
Cot Nga is one of the villages in Kecamatan Peusangan, nestled within a relatively lesser-known region characterized primarily by agricultural activities. According to the general context describable at the district and regency levels, Kabupaten Bireuen is one of the important administrative units in the eastern part of Aceh Province: the regency became an independent administrative area on October 12, 1999, when it was carved out from the former Kabupaten Aceh Utara. The kabupaten is well-known to lie along the Banda Aceh–Medan main highway and, surrounded by three neighboring kabupatens—Kabupaten Bener Meriah, Kabupaten Pidie Jaya, and Kabupaten Aceh Utara—functions as a transit traffic hub within North Sumatra. This favorable transportation position brings the villages of Kecamatan Peusangan, including Cot Nga, into relative proximity to the main traffic axis, though the settlement itself certainly ranks among the smaller, more locally-scaled regions. It is generally characteristic of Aceh Province that the economy is built on agricultural and fishing activities, and local communities are strongly tied to local customary law and Islamic religious traditions.
Real estate and investment
Concrete real estate market data specific to Cot Nga is not available from public sources. Based on the broader regional context applicable to Kabupaten Bireuen and Aceh Province generally, it can be stated that in rural areas of southern and southeastern Aceh and north Sumatran countryside, property prices typically remain considerably below the levels of major Indonesian cities, particularly Bali, Jakarta, or Lombok. Investment activity in these areas is primarily determined by local demand, and foreign real estate investments throughout Indonesia are subject to special legal regulations. According to Indonesian law, foreign nationals cannot acquire full ownership rights (Hak Milik) to Indonesian property; for them, Hak Pakai (usage rights) or, under certain conditions, Hak Sewa (rental rights) may be applicable. In Aceh Province, moreover, local-level regulations, adat istiadat (customary law), and provisions arising from the province's special autonomy may also influence real estate transactions; therefore, consultation with a local legal expert is essential before any investment decision. Cot Nga and its immediate surroundings presumably represent a low-volume local real estate market, where transactions take place mainly among members of the local community.
Safety and security
Specific crime statistics or public safety classifications pertaining to Cot Nga are not found in publicly available sources. Considering the broader regional context, Kabupaten Bireuen and Aceh Province have undergone significant political and security transformation over the past decades. It is a known fact from sources that the kabupaten was counted as one of the main bases of Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), the Aceh Independence Movement, and military emergency status was imposed in the region from May 2003. Since the conclusion of the 2005 Helsinki Peace Agreement (Helsinki MOU), the situation has gradually stabilized, and Aceh Province is currently regarded as a relatively stable public security region within Indonesia, although due to the province's special autonomy, attention should be paid to compliance with local norms and regulations, including certain elements of customary Islamic law (Sharia) contained in local ordinances. In rural villages, as Cot Nga presumably is, the strong community fabric and local traditions generally favor social order, but concrete, quantified evidence of this does not appear in available sources.
Tourist attractions
No tourist attractions or sites of interest that can be directly linked to the name Cot Nga can be identified in available sources. At the broader Kabupaten Bireuen level, a historically noteworthy fact is that, according to Indonesian Wikipedia sources, the city of Bireuen was declared the second capital of the Indonesian Republic on June 18, 1948, during the Second Dutch Military Offensive (Agresi Militer Belanda II, 1947–1948), when the Emergency Indonesian Republic Government (PDRI) temporarily relocated its seat here from Bukittinggi. This historical event makes the kabupaten as a whole a place of special significance in Indonesian national memory, and visiting the relevant memorials in Bireuen city can command the attention of those interested in Indonesian modern history. Cot Nga and its immediate rural surroundings within Kecamatan Peusangan offer primarily the Sumatran agricultural and natural landscape, access to which is possible through the existing infrastructure of the Banda Aceh–Medan main highway, but targeted tourism development cannot be attested to based on available sources.
Summary
Cot Nga is a rural, poorly documented small village in Aceh Province, Sumatra, located within the territory of Kecamatan Peusangan, within the administrative framework of Kabupaten Bireuen. Its characteristics are defined primarily by the context describable at the kabupaten and provincial levels: the regency, which became independent in 1999 with a historical past, is situated along the Banda Aceh–Médan transit route and has been developing in a progressively stabilized environment since the 2005 peace process. In the absence of specific settlement-level data—property prices, statistics, attractions—objective detail about the village can only be learned further if deeper information from on-site sources or domestic Indonesian sources becomes available.
