Selat Panjang (Jawi: سلاتفنجاغ‎; Chinese: 石叻班讓; pinyin: shílèbānràng) is the capital of Kepulauan Meranti Regency, which is part of the province of Riau in Indonesia.

The city is located on Tebing Tinggi Island, which is separated by a narrow channel from Sumatra, and across the Strait of Malacca from Singapore.

The town of Selat Panjang (administratively, the district or kecamatan of Tebing Tinggi) has a dense population of about 66,400 people in mid-2023.

Thus, nowadays many Chinese Indonesians who are originally from Selat Panjang have moved to other regions to make a better living at prominent locations like Singapore, Medan, Pekanbaru, Batam, Bengkalis, and Tanjung Balai Karimun.

At one time it was entirely covered by peat swamps and dense forest, but it is rapidly being cleared for pulpwood and palm oil plantations.

[5] Lake Nambus is about 30 minutes by road from the port of Selat Panjang, near Tanjung Village, surrounded by protected forest.

In addition to interest in the island as well as Sultan Sharif Ali Abdul Jalil Assyaidis Syaifuddin Baalawi himself had to stop in the area, the main purpose of Sultan Sharif Ali was to gather forces against the kingdom of Sambas (West Kalimantan), which indicated that allied with the Dutch, who had betrayed the agreement faithfully and steal the crown Siak kingdom.

"Den Bagus Saiyid Thoha named Tengku Panglima Besar Muda Siak Sri Indrapura.

In 1810 AD Sultan Sharif Ali Muda Tengku Panglima Besar Saiyid Thoha was ruler of the island.

Bustling trade interaction of coastal areas of Riau is the reason for the Dutch East Indies government participated in the determination of the name of this country.

During his reign at this airport there was a polemic with the Dutch Colonial Government Konteliur Van Huis about changing the name of this country, in the Dutch colonial government unilaterally changed the area into Selat Panjang, but not approved by JM Tengkoe Soelong Tjantik Saijet Alwi as local stakeholders.

Over time the beginning of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, Selat Panjang town, and the surrounding area became under Bengkalis Regency Kewedanan which then changed status to Tebing Tinggi.

[12] New sago plantings were started in the region on peat soils in 1989, with US$2 million per year expected to be invested in the crop.