Kampung - Kampung

Japanese: カンポン - かんぽん
Kampung - Kampung

…In Malay and Indonesian, it originally meant a gathering, a group of houses in a certain area, that is, a village. In Malaysia, it was also called kampong. As in the example, “Where is your kampung?”, it is often used to mean what is usually called a buraku or mura in Japan. …

From Jakarta

...The population was 32,000 in the 17th century and 282,000 in 1924, but after World War II it grew rapidly to 1,174,000 in 1948, 1,846,000 in 1953, 3.1 million in 1963, 4.2 million in 1970, and 5.27 million in 1975, and the city's social facilities could no longer keep up with the growth. Even now, 60% of the residents live in the densely populated areas of the city known as kampungs (villages), which are small houses, and only about 20% of the city has access to electric lighting. The contrast between the modern cityscape of the city's main streets and the lives of the poor citizens in the backstreets is stark. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "kampung" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…マレー語およびインドネシア語で,元来〈集り〉を意味し,一定地域の家屋の集合体,すなわち集落を指す。マレーシアではカンポンkampongとも呼ばれた。“あなたの出身カンプンはどこですか”の例にみるように,通常日本でいう部落あるいはムラの意味で多く使われる。…

【ジャカルタ】より

…人口は17世紀に3万2000,1924年に28万2000であったが,48年に117万4000,53年に184万6000,63年に310万,70年に420万,75年に527万と第2次大戦後急激に増大し,都市としての社会施設がこれに追いつけなくなった。今も住民の60%は市内のカンポン(村)といわれる小住宅の密集区域に住み,電灯の普及率も20%ほどにすぎない。表通りの近代的都市の外観と裏通りの貧しい市民層の生活の対照は極端である。…

※「カンポン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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