Bantul Regency is one of the five districts / cities in the Province of Yogyakarta Special Region. When viewed at the macro landscape, Bantul region consists of plains region located in the middle and hilly area located on the east and west, and south coastal areas. Landscape condition relative lengthwise from north to south. Geographically, Bantul regency lies between 0744'04 "0800'27" south latitude and 11o 12'34 "- 11o 31'08" east longitude. On the east by Gunungkidul, in the north bordering the city of Yogyakarta and Sleman, on the west border with Kulonprogo District, and on the south by Ocean Indonesia.
At Bantul, 99 percent from the people engaged in small cottage industries. The products produced by such industrial type is souvenirs. Now there are a number of souvenir center, kind of pottery in Kasongan, leather goods in Manding, wooden masks in Pendowoharjo and bamboo handicrafts in Muntuk. There is also a batik industry in Imogiri and Srandakan, silver and imitation in Banguntapan, dagger in Girirejo, and the craft of glass fiber (fiber glass) in Karangjambe, Banguntapan. There are also craft decoration chisel (chisel carving puppet) who has become a small industry leading.
The industrial sector is not the only source of this regional economy. Still there are other sources that are not less potential, namely the tourism sector. The famous sights in this area include Parangtritis and burial of the kings of Mataram in Imogiri. There are also beach Samas and the Pandan Simo which is where the imprisoned Prince Mangkubumi.
The agricultural sector is also still the mainstay of this area income. Most of the population rely on living from agriculture. Besides rice, crops also thrives in this area. Crops such as maize, cassava, sweet potato, soybean and peanuts are able to produce thousands of tons each tahunnya.Tanaman coconut into the main raw material of food typical of this area, namely Geplak also grow in this area.
several tourist attractions in the area of Bantul:
- Parangtritis Beach
- Parangkusumo
- tomb Imogiri
- Selarong
- Kasongan
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