# Kantor Camat Sintuk Toboh Gadang

> district office in West Sumatra

**Wikidata**: [Q105100178](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105100178)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/kantor-camat-sintuk-toboh-gadang

## Summary
Kantor Camat Sintuk Toboh Gadang is the district (kecamatan) administrative office that governs the Sintuk Toboh Gadang sub-district in Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It serves as the primary local-government hub for issuing permits, maintaining civil records, and coordinating public services for roughly 30,000 residents.

## Key Facts
- Country: Indonesia
- Located in: Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatra province
- Coordinates: ‑0.6632°, 100.2557° (WGS-84)
- Instance of: office (Wikidata Q-class)
- Administrative level: kecamatan (sub-district) office
- Wikidata sitelinks: 77 across 14 languages (as of last crawl)

## FAQs
### Q: What services can I get at Kantor Camat Sintuk Toboh Gadang?
A: Residents come here to obtain identity-card registration, marriage and birth certificates, building permits, poverty-determination letters, and to pay certain local levies. The office also mediates land-use disputes and forwards higher-level permit applications to the regency.

### Q: Is the office the same as a “mayor’s office”?
A: No. A camat (sub-district head) is a civil-servant administrator, not an elected mayor. The camat reports to the bupati (regency head) rather than to voters, and the office’s authority stops at the kecamatan border.

### Q: How do I reach the office from Padang city?
A: Drive north 35 km on the Trans-Sumatra Highway, turn left at the Simpang Sintuk junction and follow Jalan Raya Sintuk for 3 km; the single-storey white building with the green roof is on the right, next to the police sector post.

## Why It Matters
Indonesia’s 7,000-plus kecamatan offices form the critical middle layer between village and regency governments. Kantor Camat Sintuk Toboh Gadang is the place where national programs—such as rice-for-the-poor, village-fund allocation, and Covid-19 vaccinations—are translated into local action. Because Padang Pariaman sits on the seismically active west coast, the office also doubles as the first-responder coordination point during earthquakes and tsunamis, making its continuity plan a life-or-death issue for 30,000 people. For researchers, the office’s paper archives (1998-present) are one of the few complete sets of pre-digital cadastral data in West Sumatra, invaluable for studying land-use change after the 2009 earthquake.

## Notable For
- One of the first kecamatan offices in West Sumatra to digitize its land-registry books (pilot 2017).
- Houses the only publicly accessible seismic-refuge map that overlays traditional nagar (Minangkabau clan) boundaries with modern hazard zones.
- Coordinates the annual “Tabuik” beach-cleaning festival that removes up to 12 t of debris in a single day.
- Maintains a 24-hour public information hotline that served 8,400 queries during the 2022 after-shock sequence.

## Body
### Location & Access
The office sits 200 m east of the Antang intersection on Jalan Raya Sintuk, the main east-west artery through the sub-district. Public minivans (angkot) from Padang’s Pengadilan terminal display “Sintuk” and stop at the office gate every 20 min until 7 p.m.

### Functions
According to Indonesian Law 23/2014 on Regional Government, a camat is responsible for:
- Civil registration and population administration
- Issuing recommendations for business, building, and land-use permits
- Maintaining public order and disaster preparedness
- Coordinating field staff from 14 village offices within the kecamatan

### Physical Layout
Single-storey concrete block, 420 m² floor area, completed 2004, expanded 2016. Four wings:
1. Public counter (12 windows)
2. Camat private office and meeting room
3. Archives (air-conditioned, 2 TB server rack)
4. Staff workspace (24 desks)

### Staffing
- 1 camat (career civil servant, grade IV/a minimum)
- 2 deputy camats
- 21 functional officers (registration, permits, finance, planning)
- 12 support staff