Districts of Indonesia

The term district, in the context of Indonesia, refers to the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city.[1][2][3][4] The local term kecamatancode: ind promoted to code: id is used in the majority of Indonesian areas. The term distrikcode: ind promoted to code: id 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 kemantrencode: ind promoted to code: id is used for districts within Yogyakarta, the province's only city.[5] According to Statistics Indonesia, there are a total of 7,252 districts in Indonesia as at 2019, subdivided into 83,820 administrative villages (rural desacode: ind promoted to code: id and urban kelurahancode: ind promoted to code: id ).[6]

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