Kuala Kencana (literally "golden estuary")[1] is a district in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia.

It is the purpose-built company town, managed by Indonesian mineral extraction company PT Freeport Indonesia.

The new town was inaugurated by Indonesian President Suharto in 1995.

[3] The town features running water and other modern amenities previously rarely seen in Papua, though critics note this has come at a cost of dispossession of indigenous populations and environmental damage.

[4] Kuala Kencana has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.