Districts of Indonesia

[7] Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency.

District in Indonesia is the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city (second-level) and province (first-level).

[18] District head is a career bureaucrat position directly appointed by regent or mayor.

During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan, a subdivision of a regency.

[21] With the release of the Act Number 21 of 2001 on the Special Autonomous of Papua Province, the term distrik was used instead of kecamatan in the entire Western New Guinea.