Cianjur is a town and district in the
West Java province of
Indonesia, and is the capital of
Cianjur Regency. The town of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between
Jakarta (120 km to the northwest) and
Bandung (60 km to the east). The population was 158,125 at the 2010 Census.
[1] Because of its location, some of Cianjur's residents commute to work either in Bandung or in Jakarta.
The road on which Cianjur is located used to be the main (extremely busy) road from Jakarta to Bandung but was in effect replaced as the main road link between these two main cities when the
Jakarta-Bandung tollroad was fully completed in 2005.
The district mainly produces agricultural products, especially
rice, and it has been known as the major source of rice production for the heavily populated
Java island besides Karawang.