Sindangkasih

Sindangkasih lies inland in the Sundanese country of western Java, near the Cikao River port and routes leading toward the old capital of Pakuan. In 1830 the regent of Karawang, Raden Adipati Aria Suriawinata, moved his seat here from Wanayasa. The settlement was formally named Purwakarta in 1831. Its new centre followed a familiar Javanese plan, with a square, a mosque and the regent's residence arranged around it; nearby water became the basis of the Situ Buleud pond.