pemerintah pusat

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of pemerintah (“government”) +‎ pusat (“central”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pəməˈrɪntah ˈpusat̚]

Noun

pemerintah pusat (plural pemerintah-pemerintah pusat)

1. (politics, government) central government: the highest level of government in a unitary state

   Synonym: pemerintah agung

   Antonym: pemerintah daerah

Further reading

• “pemerintah pusat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016