An
administrative village is the lowest level of government administration in
Indonesia. It could be a village or a
kelurahan. A village is headed by a village chief (
kepala desa), which is elected by popular vote. A kelurahan is headed by a lurah, a civil servant appointed by local government (city or regency). A village is divided non-administratively into local communities which manage certain number of households. In
Aceh, a village is called as
gampong. Since the implementation of regional autonomy in 2001, the larger
nagari has been introduced in place of the
desa as the lowest government unit in West Sumatra.