Districts of Indonesia

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In Indonesia, district is the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city. [1] [2] [3] [4] The local term kecamatan is used in the majority of Indonesian areas. The term distrik is used in provinces in Papua. In the Special Region of Yogyakarta, the term kapanewon is used for districts within the regencies, while the term kemantren is used for districts within Yogyakarta, the province's only city. [5] According to Statistics Indonesia, there are a total of 7,288 districts in Indonesia as of 2023, subdivided into 83,971 administrative villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan). [6]

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During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan, a subdivision of regency, while kecamatan was translated as subdistrict (Dutch : onderdistrict). [7] Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency. Mainstream media such as The Jakarta Post , [8] [9] [10] Kompas , [11] [12] [13] and Tempo [14] [15] [16] [17] use "district" to refer to kecamatan; however machine translation services like Google Translate often incorrectly uses "district" to refer to regencies instead.

Definition

District office of Gabuswetan, Indramayu Regency, West Java Kantor Kecamatan Gabuswetan, Indramayu.jpg
District office of Gabuswetan, Indramayu Regency, West Java

District in Indonesia is the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city (second-level) and province (first-level). According to the Act Number 23 of 2014, district is formed by the government of regency or city in order to improve the coordination of governance, public services, and empowerment of urban/rural villages. [18] District head is a career bureaucrat position directly appointed by regent or mayor. The local district term kecamatan is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, with camat being the head.

During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan, a subdivision of a regency. Kewedanan itself was divided into kecamatan, which was translated as subdistrict (Dutch : onderdistrict). [7] Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency. In English-language dictionary, subdistrict means "a division or subdivision of a district", hence the translation of kecamatan as subdistrict is no longer precise since the absence of kewedanan as district. [19] [20] The 1982 publication of Statistics Indonesia translated kecamatan as district. [21]

With the release of the Act Number 21 of 2001 on the Special Autonomous of Papua Province, the term distrik was used instead of kecamatan in the entire Western New Guinea. [22] The difference between the two is merely the naming, with kepala distrik being the district head. It was later followed in 2019 by another autonomous province, the Special Region of Yogyakarta, where kecamatan was replaced with kapanewon and kemantren. Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, the region's governor and the monarch of Yogyakarta Sultanate, issued Gubernatorial Decree Number 25 of 2019, which restored the old naming convention for the region's subdivisions. Kapanewon (a subdivision of regency) is headed by a panewu, while kemantren (a subdivision of city), is headed by a mantri pamong praja. [5]

List of districts

Province
code		Lists of Districts
by provinces		Number of
districts
as of 2023 [6]
11 List of districts of Aceh 290
12 List of districts of North Sumatra 455
13 List of districts of West Sumatra 179
14 List of districts of Riau 172
15 List of districts of Jambi 144
16 List of districts of South Sumatra 241
17 List of districts of Bengkulu 129
18 List of districts of Lampung 229
19 List of districts of the Bangka Belitung Islands 47
21 List of districts of the Riau Islands 80
31 List of districts of Jakarta 44
32 List of districts of West Java 627
33 List of districts of Central Java 576
34 List of districts of the Special Region of Yogyakarta 78
35 List of districts of East Java 666
36 List of districts of Banten 155
51 List of districts of Bali 57
52 List of districts of West Nusa Tenggara 117
53 List of districts of East Nusa Tenggara 315
61 List of districts of West Kalimantan 174
62 List of districts of Central Kalimantan 136
63 List of districts of South Kalimantan 156
64 List of districts of East Kalimantan 105
65 List of districts of North Kalimantan 55
71 List of districts of North Sulawesi 171
72 List of districts of Central Sulawesi 176
73 List of districts of South Sulawesi 311
74 List of districts of Southeast Sulawesi 222
75 List of districts of Gorontalo 77
76 List of districts of West Sulawesi 69
81 List of districts of Maluku 118
82 List of districts of North Maluku 118
91 List of districts of Papua 115
92 List of districts of West Papua 86
93 List of districts of South Papua 83
94 List of districts of Central Papua 131
95 List of districts of Highland Papua 252
96 List of districts of Southwest Papua 132
Total7,288

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