STKRJ Katok 'B' or Kampong Katok 'B', also known as STKRJ Mata-Mata, is a

public housing estate Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

Brunei-Muara District Brunei-Muara District ( ms, Daerah Brunei dan Muara; Jawi: برونائی-موارا ضلع) or simply Brunei-Muara is one of the four districts of Brunei. It has the smallest area among the four districts, with , yet is the most populous, wi ...

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 from the country's capital

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 total population was 6,108 in 2016. It is one of the estates for the

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 ...

(, STKRJ), a public housing programme for the country's indigenous citizens ().

Geography

The estate is located in the central part of Brunei-Muara District, as well as in the outskirts of the municipal area of

and about from the capital's

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. It neighbours

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'. Th ...

and

Perpindahan Mata-Mata Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata () or simply known as Perpindahan Mata-Mata, is a public housing estate and designated village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, on the outskirts of the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 2,385 in 2016. ...

to the east. It is one of the estates named after the village

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, postcod ...

, the other

STKRJ 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 of ; the population ...

Administration

For

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purposes, the estate is officially known as STKRJ Mata-Mata and has been divided into three areas and administered as

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Infrastructures

Schools

Katok 'B' Primary School is the estate's government primary school. Other schools located in the area include: * Katok Secondary School () — a government secondary school. It was established in 2014 and as of 2017 had 1,180 students and 121 teachers. It is housed at what was formerly Katok Sixth Form Centre, a

sixth form college A sixth form college is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and the International Baccalaureate Di ...

, whereby the latter has been relocated to a new place in

Mukim Sengkurong Mukim Sengkurong is a mukim in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. The population was 31,493 in 2016. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Sengkurong, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in the western- and nor ...

and renamed Sengkurong Sixth Form Centre. The school complex sits on a land and was completed in 2008 at a cost of B$16.8 million (US$12.5 million as of September 2021). Some of the facilities include 41 classrooms, laboratories, gymnasium, theatre and library. It was established to alleviate overcrowding at Menglait Secondary School. * Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha Girls' Arabic Religious Secondary School (, SUAMPRIPAHS) — a girls' government secondary school for the country's Arabic Islamic religious education. The construction began in 2015 and completed in 2017 at a cost of almost B$47 million (US$35 million as of September 2021); it can accommodate 1,800 students. The students and teachers are those relocated from Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Damit Girls' Arabic Religious Secondary School (SUAMPRIPAD) in

Batu Satu Batu Satu, also known as Kampong Parit, is an area in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is also a designated village in Brunei-Muara District, within Mukim Kianggeh. The population was 1,509 in 2016. It encompasses a commercial are ...

. As of 2018, it had 1,365 students and 133 teachers. It was initially known as Katok Arabic Secondary School () until it was renamed on 30 January 2017 on the royal command of

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 ...

. However, their location address is often attributed to

, even though they are located outside of the village boundary.

Notes

References

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Katok 'B' STKRJ Katok 'B' or Kampong Katok 'B', also known as STKRJ Mata-Mata, is a public housing estate in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, about from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total population was 6,108 in 2016. It is one of the est ...