pegawai negeri sipil
Indonesian
editEtymology
editCompound of pegawai (“employee”) + negeri (“government”) + sipil (“civilian”, literally “civil”), calque from Japanese 国家公務員 (kokkakōmuin, “national public servant; national government employee”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpegawai negeri sipil (plural pegawai-pegawai negeri sipil, first-person possessive pegawai negeri sipilku, second-person possessive pegawai negeri sipilmu, third-person possessive pegawai negeri sipilnya)
- civil servant
- a person employed in the civil service; a government employee
- (government) a civil state apparatus, who has been appointed permanently (career) and is entitled to a certain position in his/her task force. [from 2014]
- Hypernym: aparatur sipil negara
- Coordinate terms: pegawai negeri sipil, pegawai pemerintah dengan perjanjian kerja
Alternative forms
editFurther reading
edit- “pegawai negeri sipil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.