kecamatan

Indonesian kecamatan

kecamatan (plural kecamatans)

1. 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.

Affixed of ke- +‎ camat +‎ -an, from Javanese ꦏꦕꦩꦠꦤ꧀ (kacamatan).

• IPA^(key): /kə.t͡ʃa.ma.tan/
• Hyphenation: kê‧ca‧mat‧an

kêcamatan (first-person possessive kecamatanku, second-person possessive kecamatanmu, third-person possessive kecamatannya)

1. district
2. (government) the third-level administrative division in Indonesia, previously Dutch onderdistrict (“subdistrict”).

1. 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.
2. Because of special status, kecamatan is replaced by distrik in Papua and West Papua and kapanewon and kemantren in Yogyakarta.

• → English: kecamatan

• “kecamatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.