berita negara

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of berita (“news”) +‎ negara (“state”), calque of Dutch staatscourant (literally “state + newspaper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bəˈrita nəˈɡara]

Noun

berita negara (first-person possessive berita negaraku, second-person possessive berita negaramu, third-person possessive berita negaranya)

1. (law, government) official gazette.

Usage notes

As in the Netherlands, berita negara is used for official announcements other than law. Law announcements is published in lembaran negara, which is derived from Dutch staatsblad. In the Japanese occupation, the official publication was called berita pemerintah, which was derived from Japanese 官報(かんぽう) (kanpō, “official government gazette”).

The synonym is warta kerajaan in Standard Malay (Brunei and Malaysia).

Further reading

• “berita negara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.