Kaur is the most southern regency of Bengkulu Province , Indonesia, on the west coast of the island of Sumatra . It was created on 25 February 2003 from what were formerly the southeastern districts of the South Bengkulu Regency . It has an area of 2,365.00 km and had a population of 107,899 at the 2010 Census and 126,551 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 131,063 - comprising 67,389 males and 63,674 females. The regency seat is at the town of Bintuhan .
15-445: The Regency is divided into fifteen districts ( Indonesian : kecamatan ), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, and the number of villages in each district (totalling 192 rural desa and 3 urban kelurahan ), and its post code. Note: (a) including
30-563: A district ", hence the translation of kecamatan as subdistrict is no longer precise since the absence of kewedanan as district . The 1982 publication of Statistics Indonesia translated kecamatan as district . 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 . The difference between
45-515: A total of 7,288 districts in Indonesia as of 2023, subdivided into 83,971 administrative villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan ). During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan , a subdivision of regency, while kecamatan was translated as subdistrict ( Dutch : onderdistrict ). Following the abolition of kewedanan ,
60-471: Is responsible for conducting statistical surveys. Its main customer is the government, but statistical data is also available to the public. Annual surveys cover areas including national and provincial socio-economics , manufacturing establishments, population and the labour force . Established in 1960 as the Central Bureau of Statistics ( Biro Pusat Statistik ), the institute is directly responsible to
75-622: Is the third-level administrative subdivision , below regency or city . The local term kecamatan is used in the majority of Indonesian areas. The term distrik 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 kemantren is used for districts within Yogyakarta , the province's only city. According to Statistics Indonesia , there are
90-449: 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 kecamatan
105-580: Is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, with camat 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 kecamatan , which was translated as subdistrict ( Dutch : onderdistrict ). Following the abolition of kewedanan , the term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency. In English-language dictionary, subdistrict means "a division or subdivision of
120-399: The kelurahan of Bantar Bintuhan. (b) including the kelurahan of Tanjung Iman. (c) including the kelurahan of Simpang Tiga. 4°35′21″S 103°25′00″E / 4.5893°S 103.4168°E / -4.5893; 103.4168 This Bengkulu location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Districts of Indonesia In Indonesia , district
135-540: The president of Indonesia . Its functions include providing data to other governmental institutes as well as to the public and conducting statistical surveys to publish periodic statistics on the economy, social change and development. Statistics Indonesia also assists data processing divisions in other public offices to support and to promote standard statistical methods. In February 1920, the Director of Agriculture and Trade ( Directeur van Landbouw Nijverheid en Handel ) of
150-559: The Central Bureau on Statistics became the Central Statistics Agency. Based on Republic of Indonesia Laws No. 6 of 1960 on the Census, Statistics Indonesia organizes a census every 10 years A demographic census has been organized every year ending in "0" after 1961 namely in 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 , 2010 and 2020 . An economic census is held every year ending in "6", namely 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016. An agricultural census
165-606: The government of the Dutch East Indies , established the Statistical Office based in Bogor. In March 1923, the Commission for Statistics was formed to represent members of each department. It was tasked with planning actions to ensure the achievement of unity in statistical activities in Indonesia. On 24 September 1924, the name of the institution was changed to Central Statistics Office ( Centraal Kantoor voor de Statistiek , CKS) and
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#1732855074705180-633: The institution was moved to Jakarta. In June 1942, the Government of Japan reactivated statistical activities focused on meeting the needs of war or military. CKS was renamed General Affairs Department Research Office, Military Government ( Japanese : 庶務部調査室軍政監部 , romanized : Shomubu Chosasitsu Gunseikanbu ) during Japanese military occupation. On 26 September 1960 the government of Indonesia enacted Law No. 7 of 1960 on Statistics replacing Statistiek Ordonantie 1934 . Law Number 16 of 1997 concerning Statistics replaced previous laws, and based on it,
195-433: The old naming convention for the region's subdivisions. Kapanewon (a subdivision of regency) is headed by a panewu , while kemantren (a subdivision of city), is headed by a mantri pamong praja . Statistics Indonesia Statistics Indonesia ( Indonesian : Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS , lit. 'Central Agency of Statistics'), is a non-departmental government institute of Indonesia that
210-402: The term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency. Mainstream media such as The Jakarta Post , Kompas , and Tempo use "district" to refer to kecamatan ; however machine translation services like Google Translate often incorrectly uses "district" to refer to regencies instead. District in Indonesia
225-403: 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 kecamatan was replaced with kapanewon and kemantren . Sultan Hamengkubuwono X , the region's governor and the monarch of Yogyakarta Sultanate , issued Gubernatorial Decree Number 25 of 2019, which restored
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