Bukit Lanjan is a hill in

Petaling District The Petaling District is a district located in the heart of Selangor in Malaysia. Petaling is not to be confused with the city of Petaling Jaya located in it, nor the ''mukim'' of Petaling under Petaling Jaya City. The district office is located ...

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. Bukit Lanjan is part of the Damansara parliamentary constituency. The Bukit Lanjan state constituency includes Bandar Utama Damansara,

Bandar Sri Damansara Bandar Sri Damansara is a residential township in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. The township is divided into two sections, SD1-SD5 in the north and SD7-SD15 in the south which are separated by Malaysia Federal Route 54, Kuala Selangor-Ke ...

Mutiara Damansara Mutiara Damansara is an affluent major township in the northern flank of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Transportation Public transportation Mutiara Damansara MRT station is the main railway station serving the township. rapidKL bus route 8 ...

, Damansara Perdana and Kayu Ara. There are 25,550 registered voters in Bukit Lanjan of whom 52.8% are Chinese, 31.8% Malays, 14.7% Indians and 0.7% others. Bukit Lanjan has a population of about 50,000. Of the total number, 25% are in the lower-income group residing in Kampung Sungei Kayu Ara and the Pelangi Damansara low-cost flats. The upper-income group makes up about 35% of the population in areas like Bandar Utama,

, Damansara Perdana and

, while the remaining 40% is the middle-income group. The most common complaints from the residents in the constituency are about the infrastructure - the upgrading and maintenance of drains, roads and fields - and security matters such as car thefts and house break-ins. There is also constant

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leading to 1 Utama Shopping Centre and

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, and the roadside hawker issue at Bandar Sri Damansara. There was an

Orang Asli Orang Asli (''lit''. "first people", "native people", "original people", "aborigines people" or "aboriginal people" in Malay) are a heterogeneous indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of ...

village on the hill previously, consisting mainly of the

Temuan The Temuan people (Temuan: ''Uwang/Eang Temuan'', Malaysian: ''Orang Temuan'') are a Proto-Malay ethnic group indigenous to western parts of Peninsular Malaysia. They can be found in the states of Selangor, Pahang, Johor, Negeri Sembilan and Malac ...

tribe. But today the village has been relocated to Desa Temuan, near Damansara Perdana. Their "Batin" (meaning leader in Temuan language) name is Kanau. 30 percent of Temuan here are Muslim, 20 percent are Christian and 50 percent are animists, believing in the power of nature.

External links

Temuan Web Page
Orang Asli Temuan Webpage

References

Activist with a mission
The Star, February 29, 2008.
Straight fights in all Subang constituencies
The Star, March 7, 2008. Hills of Malaysia Landforms of Selangor {{selangor-geo-stub