A mystical religious sect, Saminism, rose from Blora, and gained prominence in the early 20th century. Headed by a Javanese peasant, Surontiko Samin, it followed the teachings of the Islamic prophet Adam, but owed little to the religion. Stressing the village structure, mysticism, and sexuality, it became an early protest movement, and was opposed to the local rulers as much as it was against the Dutch East Indies colonial administration, refusing to pay the new Dutch head tax. The movements survived until the 1960s. Blora regency consists of both low land and hill area between 20–280 meters high above sea level. In the north part of regency is dominated by hilly area that forms the series of Northern Limestone Mountain as well as in the south area that stretches from east of Semarang to Lamongan. The capital of Blora regency is located right on the slope of Northern Limestone Mountain. Half of Blora regency area are forests, especially on the north, east and south region while the central low land is mainly used for agricultural purposes. During the dry season, most of the area of Blora regency is short of water supply, either for drinking or irrigation.
Administrative division
Blora Regency since the division in early 2000s was divided into 30 districts or kecamatan, 484 rural villages or desa, and 28 city villages or kelurahan. Before the division in 2000s Blora Regency was divided into 1 administrative city, 5 regent assistants, 19 sub-districts, 9 sub-district s, 429 city villages or kelurahan. This regency consists of 30 districts as follows:
Blora is situated on the Inter-Province road that connecting Semarang as the capital of Central Java Province to Surabaya as the capital of East Java Province via Purwodadi. It's actually the 2nd class road, because most of peoples preferred to choose Semarang-Surabaya via Rembang. Blora also situated on a southern railway connection that linked to most big cities in Java. However, Blora main train station is located in Cepu sub-district therefore peoples often referred Cepu train station. Except two above, Blora just like any other regencies in Java has a local public transportation such as: bemo, becak, etc. Ngloram Domestic Airport at Ngloram, Cepu District with 900 meter long runway located at which built in 1978, but officially closed in 1984. In 2013, expansion land acquisition is still in the progress inline with reactivated airport plan.
