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15-438: Pangandaran is a town and district of Pangandaran Regency within the province of West Java , Indonesia . It is located on the southern coast of the island of Java . A well-known surfing beach has made Pangandaran a popular tourist destination. On 17 July 2006, an undersea earthquake measuring 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale triggered a tsunami that engulfed the resort area and caused destruction as far inland as half

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

45-511: A tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round. 7°41′49″S 108°39′24″E  /  7.6969°S 108.6568°E  / -7.6969; 108.6568 Districts of Indonesia 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

60-478: A kilometre. Over three hundred people from the town were killed. Pangandaran is a large fishing village situated on a narrow isthmus with Pangandaran National Park occupying the entire headland. On either side to the east and to the west of Pangandaran village and the National Park isthmus are two beaches of volcanic black sand . The Penanjung Pangandaran nature reserve is nearby on a peninsula connected to

75-471: 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

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

120-540: 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

135-559: 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

150-484: 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

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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180-633: 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,

195-451: The mainland by a narrow neck of land. The isthmus is around 200 m wide. About eighty percent of the nature reserve is secondary rainforest . The flora of the nature reserve includes the Rafflesia . The Pangandaran International Kite Festival has been held since 1985. Cijulang Nusawiru Airport is located nearby and provides facilities for domestic service to Jakarta. Pangandaran has

210-433: 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

225-459: 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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