daerah hitam
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of daerah (“area”) + hitam (“black”).
Noun
daerah hitam (plural daerah-daerah hitam)
- black spot
- a dangerous place or area.
- (transport) accident blackspot (a section of roadway that has been designated as being particularly accident-prone)
- environment where people commit crimes
- prostitution environment and so on
Further reading
- “daerah hitam”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016