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Regencies (kabupaten) and cities (kota) are the second-level administrative subdivision in Indonesia, immediately below the provinces, and above the districts.Regencies are roughly equivalent to American counties, although most cities in the United States are below the counties. [1]
Subsequently, there was a jump in the number of regencies (and cities) from around 300 at the end of 1998 to 514 in 2014 sixteen years later. This secession of new regencies, welcome at first, has become increasingly controversial within Indonesia because the administrative fragmentation has proved costly and has not brought the hoped-for benefits.
Indonesia's thirty-four provinces (including five with special status) are divided into 514 second-level administrative divisions (daerah tingkat II) - comprising 416 regencies (kabupaten in Indonesian) and 98 cities (kota) which are independent of the regencies in which they are geographically situated.
As of the 2020 census, there are a total of fourteen cities in Indonesia exceeding a population of one million people, and about 32.6 million people live in these fourteen cities (or 12.07% of Indonesia's population of 270.2 million people as of the 2020 census). Most of the provinces' largest cities in Indonesia are also their capital cities.
Regencies and cities are divided into districts, which have several variations of terms: Kecamatan headed by a camat. A camat is a civil servant, responsible to the regent (in a regency) or to the mayor (in a city). Kecamatan are found in most parts of Indonesia. [15] Distrik headed by a kepala distrik, are used in provinces within Western New ...
Article 18 paragraph 1 of the 1945 Constitution states that "the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is divided into provincial regions and those provincial regions are divided into regencies and city, whereby every one of those provinces, regencies, and municipalities has its regional government, which shall be regulated by laws."
The nominal GRP of the regencies is the most comprehensive measure of national economic activity. It is the regional or provincial counterpart of the national gross domestic product. Statistics Indonesia derives the GRP for a province as the sum of the nominal GRP originating from all the industries in the province at current market prices . [2]
Pages in category "Lists of regencies and cities of Indonesia" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .