Central Sumatra
| Province of Central Sumatra Provinsi Sumatera Tengah | |||||||||||||
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| Province of Indonesia | |||||||||||||
| 1948–1957 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Bukittinggi | ||||||||||||
| Demonym | Central Sumatran | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||||
• 1948–1950 | Mohammad Nasroen | ||||||||||||
• 1951–1956 | Ruslan Muljohardjo | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||||
• Established | 15 April 1948 | ||||||||||||
• Riau succeeded, dissolved into 2 more provinces in 1958 | 9 August 1957 | ||||||||||||
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Central Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatera Tengah) was a province in Indonesia whose territories included present day West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, and the Riau Islands. Since 1957 this province has not been registered as an Indonesian province after it was dissolved by Ordinance-as-Act (Undang-undang Darurat) No. 19/1957 and divided into the provinces of West Sumatra, Riau and Jambi through Law No. 61/1958 by the Sukarno government.