The regency of Indramayu is located in the northeast of Jawa Barat, at a geographical position of 107^o 52' - 108^o 36' eastern longitude and 6^o 14' - 6^o 40' southern latitude. In the west it is bordered longitude and regency of Subang, in the north by the Java Sea, in the east by the regencies of Cirebon and Majalengka, and in the south by the regency of Sumedang. It covers an area of 2,004 square kilometers, the longest distance from west to east seventy kilometers, from north to south fourty kilometers.
Indramayu is situated 195 kilometers from Jakarta or 183 kilometers from Bandung. From Jakarta it can be reached by car or by train to Surabaya. Transport facilities include buses and non-buses vehicles, available at three terminals. Traveling in town can be done by four-wheel-drive vehicles, Dokars (horse-drawn carts) and Becaks. About fifteen kilometers from the center of the town, in Jati barang there is a railway station connecting this are so Jakarta, Karawang, Cikampek, Cirebon, and Bandung.
Indramayu is famous as 'the rice barn' of West Java. Another nickname given to Indramayu is 'the town is mangos'. The Dermayu mango, as it is called by the local people, is well know for its special taste, its cookies 'kripik tike' and 'kue poci'. 'Kripik tike' is a snack made of grass root 'tuber grown in many swamps found around the villages of Indramayu. It is crunchy and tasty and has a high nutritional value. 'Poci' cookies are cookies that have a conical form made of a mixture of rice, green beans and coconut sugar or ordinary white sugar. This cookie can be slurred for a long time.
As a region more than 4,5 centuries old, Indramayu has many ancient buildings, such as mosques, and the graves of the ancestors of Indramayu from the period of the Sundanese kingdoms until the beginning of the Islamization in the area. In the town of Indramayu, in the Pesinan area, we are still able to see the old warehouses of the period before World War II, as evidence for Indramayu's nickname 'rice barn', in fact, has exited for a long time.