FromIndonesiankecamatan.
kecamatan (pluralkecamatans)
- Adistrict inIndonesia.
2007, Anwar Shah,Participatory Budgeting, page179: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 participatingkecamatans and villages.
Affixed ofcamat +ke- -an, fromJavaneseꦏꦕꦩꦠꦤ꧀(kacamatan).
- IPA(key): /kə.t͡ʃa.ma.tan/
- Hyphenation:kê‧ca‧mat‧an
kêcamatan (pluralkecamatan-kecamatan)
- district
- (government) thethird-leveladministrativedivision inIndonesia, previouslyDutchonderdistrict(“subdistrict”)
- Hyponyms:distrik,kapanewon,kemantren
- Kecamatan is used for Dutch East Indies administrative division inJava ofDutchonderdistrict(literally“subdistrict”), which was replaced byJapanese村(son) during Japanese occupation
- because of special status,kecamatan is replaced bydistrik in Papua and West Papua andkapanewon andkemantren in Yogyakarta
