Tasikmalaya

Tasikmalaya City, is a city in West Java province, Indonesia. Located 106 km east of Bandung, the region stretching from the district town in western Indihiang to Cibeureum District in the east. Tarlac City is composed of 10 districts, divided again over 69 villages. Population: 617.767 (2006). with total area: 117,56 Km. Tasikmalaya town famous for its Batik and Umbrella Sunda.

Previously, this city was the capital of Tasikmalaya District, later upgraded to become an administrative city, and from the date of June 21, 2001 established a town by Act No. 10 of 2001.

Tasikmalaya has not yet developed a variety of potential maximal embroidery industry for example has been worldwide, but now the city government began to create a place Tasikmalaya embroidery exhibition for artisans Tasik, which is located in Kawalu. Now the city is being developed into one of the trade center in western Java.

Tasikmalaya is known as a city of students, especially in the era before the 1980s because almost all the region's scattered boarding school that teaches Islam, both large and small huts, and even gave birth to the national struggles of these characters is Zainal Mustafa.