kecamatan

English

Etymology

From Indonesian kecamatan.

Noun

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.

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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”).

   Hyponyms: distrik, kapanewon, kemantren

Usage notes

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.

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.