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STKRJ Tungku Area 1
STKRJ Tungku Area 1 is a public housing estate and village within Mukim Gadong 'A' in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. The population was 1,332 in 2016. The postcode is BE2519. It is one of the estates for the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme (, STKRJ), the public housing programme for the country's indigenous citizens (). Geography The estate is located on the outskirts of the municipal area of Bandar Seri Begawan, the country's capital, and about from its city centre. As a village subdivision, it borders Kampong Rimba to the north and east, Kampong Mata-Mata to the south, Kampong Katok to the west and Kampong Tungku to the north-west. It is one of the STKRJ estates named after the nearby village Kampong Tungku. See also * STKRJ Tungku Area 2 * Kampong Tungku * STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A' STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A', also known as STKRJ Kampong Tungku Area 3, is a public housing estate and designated village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. It is located about fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Housing Estates In Brunei
This is a list of public housing estates in Brunei. The list consists of housing estates under the current government housing programmes of the National Housing Scheme (), including the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme (), as well as the former National Resettlement Scheme (). The housing estates may be part of village subdivisions, the third-level subdivisions of Brunei, but many of them have large enough population and hence are designated as separate villages; a few may even very large population that they are divided into few village subdivisions. {, class="wikitable sortable" , +Public housing estates in Brunei !Estate !Area !Village subdivision !District , - , rowspan="7" , of Berakas , rowspan="7" , Berakas , Anggerek Desa , rowspan="38" , Brunei-Muara , - , Burong Pingai Berakas , - , Pancha Delima , - , Pengiran Siraja Muda Delima Satu , - , Jaya Bakti , - , Jaya Setia , - , Orang Kaya Besar Imas , - , of Bunut , Bunut , Bunut Perpindahan , - , Lugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme
Public housing in Brunei comprises government development programmes which aim to provide ownership of land or homes to the citizens of Brunei. They are managed by the Housing Development Department (), a government department under the Ministry of Development. There has been three main public housing programmes in the country, namely the National Housing Scheme (), the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme () and the National Resettlement Scheme (). History Public housing was first initiated in the 1950s by the government in the form of mass resettlement programmes for the residents of Kampong Ayer, the stilt settlement on the Brunei River. In that decade there were cholera and smallpox epidemics which greatly affected the residents; at that time more residents settled along the banks than the middle of the river and hence more prone to the diseases. Therefore, the initial aim of the housing programme was to relocate the residents to places on land which are less susceptib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
STKRJ Tungku Area 2
STKRJ Tungku Area 2 is a public housing estate and village within Mukim Gadong 'A' in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. The population was 1,862 in 2016. The postcode is BE2519. It is one of the estates for the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme (, STKRJ), the public housing programme for the country's indigenous citizens (). Geography The estate is located on the outskirts of the municipal area of Bandar Seri Begawan, the country's capital, and about from its city centre. As a village subdivision, it borders Kampong Tungku to the north, south and west, and STKRJ Kampong Rimba to the east. It is one of the STKRJ estates named after the nearby village Kampong Tungku. See also * STKRJ Tungku Area 1 * Kampong Tungku * STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A' STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A', also known as STKRJ Kampong Tungku Area 3, is a public housing estate and designated village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. It is located about from the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. It has an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampong Tungku
Kampong Tungku is a village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, about from the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 1,689 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'A'. The postcode is BE2119. Geography The village is located on the outskirts of the municipal area of the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan, and about from its city centre. As a village subdivision, it borders Kampong Rimba to the north-east; Area 1 and Area 5 of RPN Kampong Rimba, and STKRJ Kampong Rimba to the east; Area 1 and Area 2 of STKRJ Kampong Tungku to the south-east; Kampong Katok and STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A' to the south; and Kampong Peninjau to the west. It also borders the South China Sea to the north. Administration Kampong Tungku shares a village head () with the neighbouring village Kampong Katok. Infrastructures Roads Road access to the village is served by Jalan Tungku from the south-east, and Jalan Rakyat Jati Rimba and the Tungku–Jerudong Highway from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampong Katok
Kampong Katok is a villages of Brunei, village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, about from the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 2,079 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'A'. The postcodes in Brunei, postcode is BE2319. Geography The village is located on the outskirts of the municipalities of Brunei, municipal area of the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan, and about from its Pusat Bandar, Brunei, city centre. As a subdivisions of Brunei, village subdivision, it borders Kampong Tungku and STKRJ Katok 'A' to the north, STKRJ Tungku Area 1 to the north-east, Kampong Mata-Mata to the east and south, Area 2 of STKRJ Mata-Mata to the south, Kampong Tanjong Bunut to the south-west, Kampong Selayun to the west, and Kampong Peninjau to the north-west. Administration Kampong Katok shares a village head () with the neighbouring village Kampong Tungku. Address The location address for the public housing estates in Brunei, public housing es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampong Mata-Mata
Kampong Mata-Mata () or commonly known as Mata-Mata, is a village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, and a neighbourhood in the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 6,126 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'B'. The postcode is BE1718. Name The origin of the name of the village which is said to be according to folktales, some village elders often came across a large eye of a size of a chicken which braced at a height of 7-8 feet in a tree or on the ground and from that incident the name Mata-Mata was given to the area in question which coincidentally at that time the village did not yet have a name around 1880. The people were born in the early 1800s and the story about the eyes is already there. Those eyes are not of the genie type and only certain people are shown to see those eyes. The story of the eye is believed because it is not just one or two but many people who saw it. It can be seen for a period of two to three years until after that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampong Rimba
Kampong Rimba (from the Malay name, literally translates as 'Rimba Village') is a village on the outskirts of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is one of the village subdivisions under Mukim Gadong 'A', a mukim in Brunei-Muara District. The population was 5,013 in 2016. Name The origin of the name Rimba is from the word ''rimba'' ( thick forest). It is believed from the stories of the elders from word of mouth, at that time the residents made a living by exploring the jungle for farming and then made it the starting point of life from the Baloi River and moved to the countryside until it reached the Tungku Beach and continued to the current village site. It is also believed that the message of Islam came to Rimba from the Arab missionaries who often traded through the South China Sea and indirectly conveyed the teachings of Islam. In the past, an Arab missionary who sailed through the South China Sea was hit by a storm and shipwrecked in Kuala Sungai Pulau Puny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusat Bandar, Brunei
Pusat Bandar (Malay for 'City Centre') is the city centre of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is home to a number of national landmarks, important government offices, and commercial and financial establishments. Administration The city centre is part of the municipal area of the capital. It is also one of the administrative villages within Mukim Kianggeh, a mukim of Brunei-Muara District, with a population of 204 in 2016. It has the postcode BA8611. Places The city centre is home to several sites with historical and cultural significance, including: * Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, one of the two state mosques of Brunei * , a square where Brunei's independence from the British was proclaimed in 1984 * Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex, a landmark commercial centre which overlooks Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque * Main Post Office () * Lapau, a royal ceremonial hall. It was where the Constitution of Brunei was promulgated in 1959, as well as Hassanal Bolkia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB; Jawi: بندر سري بڬاوان; ) is the capital city of Brunei. It is officially a municipal area () with an area of and an estimated population of 100,700 as of 2007. It is part of Brunei-Muara District, the smallest yet most populous district which is home to over 70 per cent of the country's population. It is the country's largest urban centre and nominally the country's only city. The capital is home to Brunei's seat of government, as well as a commercial and cultural centre. It was formerly known as Brunei Town until it was renamed in 1970 in honour of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei and the father of the current Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. The history of Bandar Seri Begawan can be traced back to the establishment of a Malay stilt settlement on the waters of the Brunei River which became the predecessor of Kampong Ayer today. It became the capital of the Bruneian Sultanate from the 16th century onwards, as well as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Brunei
Municipalities in Brunei are settlements which have been incorporated by the government to run as municipalities. They are independent from the hierarchy of the country's subdivisions but nevertheless overlap with mukims and villages, the second- and third-level administrative divisions of Brunei. The governing body of a municipality is municipal department () which is a government department under the Ministry of Home Affairs; the head is a chairman (, officially ) which is equivalent to mayor. List There are four settlements in Brunei which have municipal status, namely Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei; Kuala Belait, a town and capital of Belait District; Seria, a town also in Belait District; and Tutong, the town of Tutong District. Although Muara in Brunei-Muara District and Bangar, the capital of Temburong District, are officially known in Malay as and (literally 'Muara Town' and 'Bangar Town Bangar is the town of the Bruneian district of Temburong, an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Peoples Of Brunei
The indigenous peoples of Brunei are Bruneian people who belong to the ethnic groups considered indigenous to the country. It is more commonly attributed to indigenous people of the Malay race belonging to the seven ethnic groups, namely: Brunei, Tutong, Belait, Dusun, Murut, Kedayan and Bisaya. The local term refers to citizens of indigenous descent, in particular the aforementioned seven ethnic groups. The term has also been sometimes used to refer to the indigenous peoples. Definition According to the Brunei Nationality Act, the indigenous people of Brunei are mainly classified into Malays and non-Malays. Indigenous Malays comprise the following ethnic groups: * Brunei * Tutong * Belait * Dusun * Murut * Kedayan * Bisaya Meanwhile the indigenous people other than the Malays are defined in the First Schedule of the Act to comprise the following ethnic groups: * Bukitans * Dayaks (sea) * Dayaks (land) * Kelabits * Kayans * Kenyahs (including Sabups and Sipengs) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunei Postal Services Department
The Brunei Postal Services Department () is a government department which is responsible for providing postal service in Brunei. Retrieved 26 March 2010. History Since 1984 the department has been under the control of the Ministry of Communications. Brunei has been a member of the Universal Postal Union since 15 January 1985. See also *Postage stamps and postal history of Brunei This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Brunei. Brunei is located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Its coastline with the South China Sea is the only portion that is not bounded by another country ... References External links Brunei Post official website. Postal organizations Postal system of Brunei Postal Services Department Philately of Brunei {{Postal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
