Tapaktuan is a town in the southwest of Aceh province. The town is the capital (seat of the government) of South Aceh Regency. According to the 2013 census, it has a population of 23,100. Climate Tapaktuan has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round. Further reading See The Fourth Circle: A political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier by John F McCarthy (Stanford University Press, 2006). References Populated places in Aceh Regency seats of Aceh