In Indonesia, district or ambiguously subdistrict, is the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city. The local term is used in the majority of Indonesian areas. The term 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 is used for districts within Yogyakarta, the province's only city. According to Statistics Indonesia, there are a total of 7,288 districts in Indonesia as of 2023, subdivided into 83,971 administrative villages (rural and urban ).
During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan, a subdivision of regency, while was translated as subdistrict (). Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with which has since been directly administered by regency. Mainstream media such as The Jakarta Post, , and Tempo use "district" to refer to ; however machine translation services like Google Translate often incorrectly uses "district" to refer to regencies instead.
Definition
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. District head is a career bureaucrat position directly appointed by regent or mayor. The local district term is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, with 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 , which was translated as subdistrict (). Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with 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 as subdistrict is no longer precise since the absence of kewedanan as district. The 1982 publication of Statistics Indonesia translated as district.
With the release of the Act Number 21 of 2001 on the Special Autonomous of Papua Province, the term was used instead of in the entire Western New Guinea. 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 was replaced with kapanewon and . 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 (a subdivision of city), is headed by a mantri pamong praja.
List of districts Province code Lists of Districts by provinces Number of districtsas of 202311List of districts of Aceh29012List of districts of North Sumatra45513List of districts of West Sumatra17914List of districts of Riau17215List of districts of Jambi14416List of districts of South Sumatra24117List of districts of Bengkulu12918List of districts of Lampung22919List of districts of the Bangka Belitung Islands4721List of districts of the Riau Islands8031List of districts of Jakarta4432List of districts of West Java62733List of districts of Central Java57634List of districts of the Special Region of Yogyakarta7835List of districts of East Java66636List of districts of Banten15551List of districts of Bali5752List of districts of West Nusa Tenggara11753List of districts of East Nusa Tenggara31561List of districts of West Kalimantan17462List of districts of Central Kalimantan13663List of districts of South Kalimantan15664List of districts of East Kalimantan10565List of districts of North Kalimantan5571List of districts of North Sulawesi17172List of districts of Central Sulawesi17673List of districts of South Sulawesi31174List of districts of Southeast Sulawesi22275List of districts of Gorontalo7776List of districts of West Sulawesi6981List of districts of Maluku11882List of districts of North Maluku11891List of districts of Papua11592List of districts of West Papua8693List of districts of South Papua8394List of districts of Central Papua13195List of districts of Highland Papua25296List of districts of Southwest Papua132 Total7,288
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