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19-454: The regency is divided into fourteen districts ( Indonesian : kecamatan ), tabulated below with their area and population from the 2010 and the 2020 Census, together with the official mid-2023 population estimates. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, their postal codes and the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 80 rural desa and 23 urban kelurahan ). Notes: (a) including

38-563: 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

57-453: Is a hand stencil located in Timpuseng cave with an estimated age of over 39,000 years. It is accompanied by a depiction of a female babirusa, from about 35,000 years ago. The panel where the art can be found is located 4 meters above the cave floor and 8 meters from the entrance. The rock art in the caves was originally discovered in the 1950s by a Dutch archaeologist, H. R. van Heekeren, but at

76-449: 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

95-650: 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 a total of 7,288 districts in Indonesia as of 2023, subdivided into 83,971 administrative villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan ). During

114-639: 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

133-650: 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 , 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

152-678: The Moor macaque monkeys ( Macaca maura ) in the park, is located in the Cenrana district ( kecamatan ) in the regency. Moor macaques are endemic to Sulawesi and are considered to be endangered because the remaining numbers are believed to be limited. Caves The longest known cave in Indonesia is the Salukangkallang cave (27-kilometer in length). The cave is mostly in the Samangki Village Tourist Area (Kawasan Desa Wisata Samangki), but

171-608: The Sleman Regency ), the concept was embraced around 2000 with dozens of villages being dubbed as tourist villages. According to a 2009 report in The Jakarta Post there were 48 tourist villages listed in Yogyakarta, though only ten were actually operating as such, including: Kebonagung, Manding, Krebet, Kasongan (Bantul), Trumpon, Turgo, Ketingan, Brayut , Gamplong (Sleman), Sermo and Bobung (Gunungkidul). The designation as

190-442: The kelurahan of Borong. (h) including the 2 kelurahan of Cempaniga and Mario Pulana. (i) including the kelurahan of Sabila. Twelve of the fourteen districts tabulated above lie within the official metropolitan area of the city of Makassar ; the remaining two districts ( Camba and Mallawa ), which together form the northeast salient of the regency (with just 6.71% of the regency's population in mid 2023), are not included in

209-454: The 2 kelurahan of Bontoa and Hasanuddin. (b) including the 3 kelurahan of Baji Pamai, Baju Bodoa and Pallantikang. (c) all 7 are kelurahan - Adatongeng, Alliritengae, Boribellaya, Pettuadae, Raya, Taroada and Turikale. (d) comprising the 4 kelurahan (Allepolea, Maccini Baji, Mattiro Deceng and Soreang) and 2 desa . (e) including the kelurahan of Bontoa. (f) including the 2 kelurahan of Kalabbirang and Leang-Leang. (g) including

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228-479: The entrance to the cave is in Labuaja village, nearby to Samangki village. 5°00′15″S 119°34′30″E  /  5.00417°S 119.57500°E  / -5.00417; 119.57500 Districts of Indonesia In Indonesia , district 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

247-630: The images were possibly painted. The work suggests that early settlers in Asia were creating their own artwork at the same time, or even earlier, than artwork of this kind was being created in Europe. The caves were of interest to the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace . Wallace visited the East Indies during the period 1854 to 1862 although he appears not to have spotted the artwork. Wallace discusses his visit to

266-649: The metropolitan area. In 2000, 54.77% of the population were Bugis , 39.59% were Makassar people and 5.64% belonged to other ethnic groups. Important examples of rock art exist in the Maros regency. At the Leang Petta Kere cave for example, in the Bantimurung district ( kecamatan ) about 30 km to the north of Makassar , there are a number of red-and-white hand prints of animals and hands. The images were made by blowing red pigment around hands that were pressed on

285-402: 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 . Desa Wisata In Indonesia , a tourist village ( desa wisata ) is a village officially designated as one that welcomes tourism. In the Special Region of Yogyakarta (which includes

304-635: The region in his well-known book The Malay Archipelago first published in 1869. Journal Science announced that hand print in Maros Cave by mouth spraying dye is in the sixth position of the 2014’s top ten science breakthroughs and is called as Indonesian Cave Art. The art of drawing in (Maros Cave) rocks has same old with inhabitant of the European land. Maros Regency is famous for its karst hills and cliffs which have been referred to as "The Spectacular Karst Towers". The Karaenta Nature Reserve, best known for

323-491: The surface of the rocks. These handprints are often accompanied by fruit-eating, pig-deer looking animals called babirusas . A total of 12 images were found on the walls of seven different caves in the area. The sites have been submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list for possible inclusion. The main site of the rock art is in seven caves around 40–60 km north east of Makassar. The oldest

342-399: The time, was not regarded as being especially significant. More recently, analysis of the pictures by an Australian-Indonesian team suggests that a number of the markings are over 30,000 years old. They were looking at mineral layers that were covering the images, and tracing the amount of radioactive uranium in them. This technique did not give an exact date, but it narrowed down the time when

361-403: 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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