Anjongan – Inland kecamatan in Mempawah Regency, West Kalimantan
Anjongan is a kecamatan in Mempawah Regency, West Kalimantan, located in the inland part of the regency on the western Borneo coast north of Pontianak. According to the Indonesian Wikipedia entry it covers about 80.58 km², or roughly 6.31 percent of the regency's area, and was recorded with a population of 21,834 at a density of about 271 per km², organised into 4 desa and 1 kelurahan. The kecamatan was formed in 2005 by splitting from Sungai Pinyuh under Kabupaten Pontianak Perda No. 8/2005. Land use is mixed: about 24 percent rice fields, 44 percent non-rice farmland and 32 percent non-agricultural land, including the largest desa Kepayang and the smallest desa Pak Bulu.
Tourism and attractions
Anjongan itself is not a packaged ticketed tourist destination, and its character is shaped by an inland-rural landscape of rice fields, mixed farmland, smallholder rubber and oil-palm plots and traditional desa cores. The wider Mempawah Regency context includes the coastal town of Mempawah on the Pontianak-Singkawang road corridor, the historic Mempawah palace heritage and the seafood economy along the western Borneo coast. Visitors interested in Pontianak's nightlife, equator monument, Kapuas waterfront and Chinese-Malay cultural mix often combine Mempawah and its inland kecamatan with stops in Pontianak city, Singkawang and the upcountry areas of Landak. Cultural life follows the mixed Malay, Dayak, Chinese and Madurese pattern of West Kalimantan.
Property market
Detailed property-market figures specifically for Anjongan are not widely published, but the kecamatan benefits from being on the road corridor between Pontianak, Mempawah and Landak. Housing is dominated by single-storey landed houses on family plots, with timber and concrete masonry construction and a small layer of shophouses near the kelurahan centre and along the main road. Land tenure mixes formal BPN certification in built-up centres with traditional family and adat-based tenure in farmland and plantation areas, so verification of certificate status is important before any acquisition. Across Mempawah Regency, of which Anjongan is part, the property market is shaped by spillover from Pontianak and by the regency's mixed agricultural and small-trade economy.
Rental and investment outlook
Formal rental supply in Anjongan is modest and largely informal. Demand is driven mainly by civil servants, teachers, healthcare staff, plantation workers and small traders serving the four desa and one kelurahan that make up the kecamatan. Investors weighing exposure to the area should treat it as a long-horizon residential and agricultural position rather than projecting metropolitan-style yields, and should pay attention to road conditions, exposure to commodity-price cycles in rubber and palm oil and the gradual character of regency-scale infrastructure improvement. The wider Mempawah Regency benefits from its proximity to Pontianak and from the new toll road linking Pontianak with Singkawang.
Practical tips
Access to Anjongan is by road from Mempawah town and via the Pontianak-Singkawang road corridor, with onward connections to Landak Regency to the east. The regional air gateway is Supadio International Airport in Pontianak. Basic services such as the kecamatan puskesmas, primary and secondary schools, mosques, churches and small markets are organised at desa and kelurahan level, while larger hospitals, banks and the regency administration sit in Mempawah town. The climate is tropical and humid with high rainfall typical of equatorial West Kalimantan. Foreign investors should note that Indonesian regulations restrict freehold land title to Indonesian citizens; long-term leasehold and Hak Pakai arrangements are the usual route for non-citizens to hold residential property.
