The Kamojang crater, a geothermal field and tourist spot, is located on the slopes of Mount Guntur approximately 25 km to the northwest of Garut.
On June 1962, Kartosuwirjo was eventually captured in his hideout at Mount Geber near Garut.
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While touring Malangbong, near Garut in West Java, Kartosuwirjo met and married daughter of a local PSII leader.
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During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia (1942–1945), Kartosuwirjo established armed militias in Garut area, one of many such groups supported and armed by the Japanese in order to help them resist any future Allied invasion.
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On February 16, 1813, a new Limbangan Regency was founded by Lt. Governor Sir Stamford Raffles which became Garut Regency.