Kampong Bolkiah is a

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and housing estate in

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, the traditional riverine settlement in

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 sm ...

, the capital of

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. The total population was 2,143 in 2016.

History

Prior to the early 1980s, the area of what is now Kampong Bolkiah was still uninhabited. A few houses had been built in the area as of 1985; in 1994, it was reported that there were 48 houses and they were part of the existing village Kampong Buang Sakar which was administered under the

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. Kampong Bolkiah was established on 5 October 1992 by the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation as a housing scheme to accommodate the residents from the villages of Kampong Setia Pahlawan, Kampong Peramu, Kampong Saba, Kampong Petagian,

Kampong Kota Batu Kota Batu is a historical as well as populated area in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is home to the Kota Batu archaeological site, a few of the country's museums and two mausoleums of the earliest Sultans of Brunei. However, the pl ...

and Kampong Sungai Matan who had lost homes due to events of fire. The construction of the houses began in 1993 and completed in the following year. It was inaugurated on 22 August 1994 by

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Hassanal Bolkiah ibni Omar Ali Saifuddien III ( Jawi: ; born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Brunei since 1967 and the Prime Minister of Brunei since independence from the United Kingdom in 1984. He is one ...

. The second phase of the housing scheme involved the construction of another 250 homes. It was built to accommodate another group of residents who had lost their homes to fires in 1993. The second phase eventually becomes the administrative village Kampong Bolkiah 'B'.

Administration

For subdivision purposes Kampong Bolkiah has been divided into, and established as, two administrative

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: Both villages are under

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, a

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. They have also been subsumed under the

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area of Bandar Seri Begawan.

Infrastructures

Kampong Bolkiah Religious School is the village's i.e. school for the country's Islamic religious primary education. It was established in 1999. The school complex occupies seven of the houses, out of which six for classrooms and one for administration office. Prior to its establishment, the local students go to the religious schools in the neighbouring villages. The village has a

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which has been in operation since 2003. There is a mini local library inside the branch office of the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation located in the village. A

community centre Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...

for the local youths was established in 2021; it occupies a former house which has been donated for the purpose. Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque is the village mosque.

Notes

References

Bolkiah Bolkiah, also known as Nakhoda Ragam, was the 5th Sultan of Brunei. He ascended the throne upon the abdication of his father, Sultan Sulaiman, and ruled Brunei from 1485 to 1524. His reign marked the Golden Age of Brunei and saw the Sultanat ...

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