LOCATION@1 is one of the first provinces of LOCATION@2 , proclaimed in NUMBER@1 until NUMBER@2 , when the LOCATION@3 and Halmahera Tengah Regencies were split off as a separate province of LOCATION@4 .

In NUMBER@2 the LOCATION@4 -LRB- LOCATION@3 -RRB- and PERSON@1 -LRB- LOCATION@5 -RRB- regency were split off as a separate province , so the islands are now divided between two provinces , LOCATION@1 and LOCATION@4 .
