kejaksaan tinggi

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of kejaksaan (“prosecutor office”) +‎ tinggi (“high”), calque of Japanese 高等檢察局(こうとうけんさつきょく) (kōtōkensatsukyoku, literally “higher public prosecutor office”).

Noun

kejaksaan tinggi (first-person possessive kejaksaan tinggiku, second-person possessive kejaksaan tinggimu, third-person possessive kejaksaan tingginya)

1. (law) province-level prosecutor office.

Alternative forms

• kejati

Further reading

• “kejaksaan tinggi” 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.