Villages of Indonesia

Last updated October 23, 2024

In Indonesia, village or subdistrict is the fourth-level subdivision and the smallest administrative division of Indonesia below a district, regency/city, and province. Similar administrative divisions outside of Indonesia include barangays in the Philippines, Muban in Thailand, civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, communes in France and Vietnam, dehestan in Iran, hromada in Ukraine, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes in England and communities in Wales. There are a number of names and types for villages in Indonesia, with desa (rural village) being the most frequently used for regencies, and kelurahan (urban village) for cities or for those communities within regencies which have town characteristics. According to the 2019 report by the Ministry of Home Affairs, there are 8,488 urban villages and 74,953 rural villages in Indonesia.^[1] North Aceh Regency contained the highest number of rural villages (852) amongst all of the regencies of Indonesia, followed by Pidie Regency with 730 rural villages and Bireuen Regency with 609 rural villages. Prabumulih, with only 12 rural villages, contained the fewest. Counted together, the sixteen regencies of Indonesia containing the most rural villages—namely, North Aceh (852), Pidie (730), Bireuen (609), Aceh Besar (604), Tolikara (541), East Aceh (513), Yahukimo (510), Purworejo (469), Lamongan (462), South Nias (459), Kebumen (449), Garut (421), Bojonegoro (419), Bogor (416), Cirebon (412), and Pati (401)—contain one-third of all the rural villages in Indonesia. Five of these are located in Aceh, two in Highland Papua, three in Central Java, two in East Java, three in West Java, and one in North Sumatra. An average number of rural villages in the regencies and 15 cities of Indonesia is 172 villages. A village is the lowest administrative division in Indonesia, and it is the lowest of the four levels. The average land area of villages in Indonesia is about 25.41 km² (9.81 sq mi), while its average population is about 3,723 people.

Types of villages

Kelurahan

Kelurahan is an urban village term primarily used in cities, but also tiny parts of regencies. All provinces with the exception of Aceh have kelurahan.^[2]^[3] It is commonly translated to English as subdistrict. The leader of a kelurahan is called lurah. Major cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya and Medan are entirely urbanised and thus no rural villages. However, in the case of the province of Aceh, there is exactly no kelurahan and all five cities in the province are entirely rural. A lurah is a civil servant appointed by the district head. According to the Regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 31 of 2006, a kelurahan can be created with the following criteria:

Java and Bali: having at least 4,500 residents or 900 families within an area of at least 3 km².
Sumatra and Sulawesi: having at least 2,000 residents or 400 families within an area of at least 5 km².
Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, and Papua: having at least 900 residents or 180 families within an area of at least 7 km².

A kelurahan must have a government office, an established transportation network, adequate communication facilities, and public facilities. If it no longer meets the above conditions it can be abolished or combined with other kelurahans based on the results of research and studies conducted by the city/regency government.^[4]

Desa

Desa is a rural village terminology used in the majority of regencies in Indonesia, but also in tiny parts of cities.^[3] However, several provinces have adopted their own terminology for their traditional villages (desa adat). The leader of a desa does not have a civil servant status and is chosen by the public through an election. According to the Law Number 6 of 2014, desa and desa adat are legal community units that have territorial boundaries that are authorized to regulate and administer government affairs, community interests based on community initiatives, original rights, and/or traditional rights recognized and respected in the government system of the Republic of Indonesia.^[5]

Variations of desa terminology in Indonesia include:

Gampong in Aceh ^[6]
Nagari in West Sumatra ^[a]^[7]
Dusun in Bungo Regency (Jambi)^[b]
Nagori in Simalungun Regency (North Sumatra)
Kampung in some places in Indonesia:^[c]
- Lampung (in Central Lampung, Tulang Bawang, Way Kanan, and West Tulangbawang regencies)
- East Kalimantan (in Berau and West Kutai regencies)
- Provinces in Western New Guinea
Pekon in Pringsewu, Tanggamus, and West Lampung regencies (Lampung)
Tiyuh in West Tulang Bawang Regency (Lampung)
In Bali, there are two forms of desa, i.e. desa dinas (service village) and desa adat (cultural village). Desa dinas deals with administrative functions, while desa adat deals with religious and cultural functions.^[8]
Lembang in Tana Toraja and North Toraja regencies (South Sulawesi)^[9]
Kalurahan in Special Region of Yogyakarta.^[10]
Negeri (distinct from desa) in Ambon Island and Seram Island in Maluku

Number of villages

Provinces	Number of villages as of 2019^[1]			2023 ^[11]
Provinces	Kelurahan	Desa	Total	total
Aceh	0	6,497	6,497	6,500
North Sumatra	693	5,417	6,110	6,110
West Sumatra	230	928	1,158	1,165
Riau	268	1,591	1,859	1,862
Jambi	163	1,399	1,562	1,585
South Sumatra	387	2,853	3,240	3,258
Bengkulu	172	1,341	1,513	1,513
Lampung	205	2,435	2,640	2,651
Bangka Belitung Islands	82	309	391	393
Riau Islands	142	275	417	419
Special Region of Jakarta	267	0	267	267
West Java	645	5,312	5,957	5,957
Central Java	753	7,809	8,562	8,563
Special Region of Yogyakarta	46	392	438	438
East Java	777	7,724	8,501	8,494
Banten	313	1,238	1,551	1,552
Bali	80	636	716	716
West Nusa Tenggara	142	1,005	1,147	1,166
East Nusa Tenggara	327	3,026	3,353	3,442
West Kalimantan	99	2,031	2,130	2,145
Central Kalimantan	139	1,432	1,571	1,571
South Kalimantan	144	1,864	2,008	2,016
East Kalimantan	197	841	1,038	1,038
North Kalimantan	35	447	482	482
North Sulawesi	332	1,507	1,839	1,839
Central Sulawesi	175	1,842	2,017	2,017
South Sulawesi	792	2,255	3,047	3,059
Southeast Sulawesi	377	1,911	2,288	2,287
Gorontalo	72	657	729	729
West Sulawesi	73	575	648	648
Maluku	35	1,198	1,233	1,235
North Maluku	118	1,063	1,181	1,185
West Papua	95	1,742	1,837	824
Southwest Papua				1,013
Papua	110	5,411	5,521	999
Central Papua				1,208
Highland Papua				2,627
South Papua				690
Total	8,488	74,953	83,441	83,763

Notes

^{^[a]} except Mentawai Islands Regency
^{^[b]} In other places, "dusun" is an administrative division form below "desa".
^{^[c]} In other places, "kampung" is equal with "dusun", except in Bungo, Jambi.

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[Permendagri-72-2019-1] 1 2 Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 tentang Perubahan atas Permendagri nomor 137 Tahun 2017 tentang Kode dan Data Wilayah Administrasi Pemerintahan (PDF) (Minister of Home Affairs Regulation 72) (in Indonesian). Minister of Home Affairs. 2019.

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[5] Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 Tentang Desa (PDF) (Law 6) (in Indonesian). People's Representative Council. 2014.

[6] Qanun Provinsi Aceh Nomor 5 Tahun 2003 Tentang Pemerintahan Gampong (Qanun 5) (in Indonesian). Government of Aceh. 2003.

[7] Peraturan Daerah Provinsi Sumatera Barat Nomor 7 Tahun 2018 Tentang Nagari (Regional Regulation 7) (in Indonesian). Government of West Sumatra. 2018.

[8] "Mendagri Setujui Perda Desa Adat". Bali Post. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.

[9] Peraturan Daerah Kabupaten Toraja Utara Nomor 3 Tahun 2014 Tentang Pemerintahan Lembang (Regional Regulation 3) (in Indonesian). North Toraja Regency. 2014.

[10] Peraturan Gubernur Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Nomor 25 Tahun 2019 Tentang Pedoman Kelembagaan Urusan Keistimewaan Pada Pemerintah Kabupaten/Kota Dan Kalurahan (Governor Regulation 25) (in Indonesian). Governor of Yogyakarta. 2019.

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