Kampong Batu Apoi is a

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Temburong District Temburong District ( ms, Daerah Temburong; Jawi: دائيره تمبوروڠ) or simply Temburong () is the easternmost district in Brunei. It is an exclave — the land is separated from the rest of the country by Malaysia and Brunei Bay, an ...

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

, about East from the district town Bangar. The population was 106 in 2016. It is one of the villages within

Mukim Batu Apoi Mukim Batu Apoi is a mukim in Temburong District, Brunei. It has an area of ; as of 2016, the population was 1,635. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Batu Apoi, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in th ...

. The

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is PC1151.

Name

Sungai Batu Apoi is where Batu Apoi gets its name. Long ago, there was a

Murut Murut may refer to: * Murut people The Murut are an indigenous ethnic group, comprising 29 sub-ethnic groups inhabiting the northern inland regions of Borneo. The Murutic languages are a family of half a dozen closely related Austronesian lan ...

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there beside the river. Their

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states that a hot rock that was formerly upstream gave Batu Apoi its name. The presence of this rock rendered the entire area inhospitable and unusable to humans. Suddenly a Murut cultural hero appeared one day. He looked at the fiery rock and then tossed it into the sea far away with all of his might. He therefore made the entire region livable and secure so that the Muruts may settle there and live. Firey rock is referred to as Batu Api or Batu Apoi in Murut, a term that has become extensively used up to this point. Apoi is the Murut word for api.

Geography

At Batu Apoi Estate, an estimate of of

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fall was recorded in 1938, which was the wettest year on record.

History

Prior to the discovery of oil in

Seria Seria () is a town in Belait District, Brunei, about west from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total population was 3,625 in 2016. It was where oil was first struck in Brunei in 1929 and has since become a centre for the countr ...

mukims A mukim is a type of administrative division used in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The word ''mukim'' is a loanword in English. However, it was also originally a loanword in Malay from the Arabic word: (meaning ''resident''). The clo ...

Labu and Batu Apoi were the main rubber-producing regions, and each mukim has a sizable rubber plantation. According to a 1916 report, a

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and other structures were built on the Batu Apoi Estate, which was owned by the Liverpool (Brunei) Para Rubber Estates, and all the necessary preparations were made to begin tapping over a small area in the new year. In 1934, Batu Apoi Estate and Biang Estate had a population of 229 and 130 laborers.

Facilities

Sultan Hashim Primary School is the village's government primary school. It also shares grounds with Sultan Hashim Religious School, the village's government school for the country's Islamic religious primary education. The district's only secondary school, Sultan Hassan Secondary School, is also located in Kampong Batu Apoi. The village mosque is Kampong Batu Apoi Mosque. It was inaugurated on 4 September 1987 and can accommodate 200 worshippers. The village is also home to the PKBN Base Training Camp, the country's voluntary

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national service National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. The l ...

. Batu Apoi Industrial Complex, a small industrial estate.

References

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