kecamatan
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English
Etymology
From Indonesian kecamatan.
Noun
kecamatan (plural kecamatans)
- A district in Indonesia.
- 2007, Anwar Shah, Participatory Budgeting, page 179:
- However,rather than a central fund for which communities compete through project proposals, the project allocates block grants of about $43,000–$125,000 a year directly to all participating kecamatans and villages.
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed of camat + ke- -an, from Javanese ꦏꦕꦩꦠꦤ꧀ (kacamatan).
Pronunciation
Noun
kêcamatan (plural kecamatan-kecamatan)
- district
- (government) the third-level administrative division in Indonesia, previously Dutch onderdistrict (“subdistrict”).
Usage notes
- Kecamatan is used for Dutch East Indies administrative division in Java of Dutch onderdistrict (literally “subdistrict”), which was replaced by Japanese 村 (son) during Japanese occupation.
- Because of special status, kecamatan is replaced by distrik in Papua and West Papua and kapanewon and kemantren in Yogyakarta.
Descendants
- → English: kecamatan
Further reading
- “kecamatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.