Kampong Sungai Liang is a

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Belait District Belait District (; Jawi: دأيره بلأيت), or simply Belait (), is the largest as well as the westernmost district in Brunei. It has an area of and the population of 69,062 as of 2016. The administrative town is Kuala Belait, located at ...

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 district's principal town

Kuala Belait Kuala Belait (KB; Jawi: ) is the administrative town of Belait District, Brunei. The population of the town proper was 4,259 in 2016. Kuala Belait is officially a municipal area (), as well as a village under the mukim of the same name. The t ...

and from the oil town

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 ...

. The population was 910 in 2016. It is one of the villages within

Mukim Liang Mukim Liang is a mukim in Belait District, Brunei. The population was 14,301 in 2016. Geography The mukim is located in the north of the district, bordering the South China Sea to the north, Mukim Telisai in Tutong District to the north-eas ...

. The postcode is KC1135.

Geography

The village is one of the settlements along the country's coast with the

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. The neighbouring primary settlements include

Kampong Telisai Kampong Telisai is a coastal villages of Brunei, village in Tutong District, Brunei, about from the district town Pekan Tutong. The village also encompasses the public housing areas in Brunei, public housing area STKRJ Kampong Telisai. The pop ...

Tutong District Tutong District (; Jawi: دائيره توتوڠ) or simply Tutong is one of the four districts of Brunei. It has an area of ; the population was 48,313 in 2016. The administrative town is Pekan Tutong. It is home to Tasek Merimbun, the count ...

to the north-east and Lumut to the south-west. The Sungai Liang beach is located on the coast of the village. Even though there are huts on the beach, it nevertheless is not a commercial one. The river basin is a vital

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spot, where

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and

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meet.

Infrastructures

The village is home to Sungai Liang Health Centre, the sole

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in Mukim Liang. It also has an emergency ambulance service. The Sungai Liang Police Station is the sole

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in the mukim. On 14 September 1990, the Sungai Liang Fire Department was officially opened. Despite it being built in Kampong Lilas, it is still named after the village. It housed the Fire and Rescue Department (JBP) Operation Branch 'B'.

Education

Sungai Liang Primary School is the village's

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. It also houses the Sungai Liang Religious School (school for the country's Islamic religious primary education). When the Sungai Liang and Lumut community saw the need to construct a school that would provide their kids access to a

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, Chung Lian School was established in 1953 and would later be opened in August 1955 with 27 pupils and a teacher serving as the principal. Since then, Chung Lian School has been around to educate children and give back to the local community.

Religion

Kampong Sungai Liang Mosque is the village mosque; it was inaugurated on 8 November 1980.

Recreation

Sungai Liang Forest Recreation Park is around in size and is mostly lowland

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that has not been altered. It is roughly from

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 recreational park offers tourist amenities such

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areas,

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, and nature appreciation pathways leading to various park locations. The park is frequently used for teaching and research by the Forestry Department and other educational organizations. A small lake, a floating hut, shelter huts, and open spaces perfect for outdoor recreational activities are some of the park's additional features. Brunei Forestry Museum is built in 1986. It is one of Brunei's earliest colonnaded structures. The

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was first built in the middle of 1985 out of wood with a thatched roof. The museum serves as the public's primary source of forestry knowledge and showcases the natural history of Brunei forestry, the riches of the country's woods, as well as vintage tools and traditional forest goods.

Industry

Petrochemical

The Brunei Methanol Company (BMC) owns a

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plant in Sungai Liang. The BMC plant was the largest investment done outside of the

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and LNG industry. The plant was noted to have the capability to produce up to 850,000

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of methanol per year. The project was part of the

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goals on diversing Brunei's economy and reduce the dependence on

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. There will also be a demo

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plant in the area; it is currently in construction and expected to be completed by 2019. It is developed by , a Japanese consortium, and is aimed to produce 210 tonnes of liquefied hydrogen, in which the gas will be obtained from the nearby

Brunei LNG The Brunei LNG (BLNG) is the LNG plant in Lumut, Brunei. It is the largest oil and gas producer in the country. Moreover as of 2006, Brunei has been the 4th largest oil producer in Southeast Asia and the 9th largest LNG producer in the world. ...

plant. The product will be exported for the Japanese domestic market; the first batch is expected to be utilised as fuel for 3,000 cars used during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2020.

Fertilizer

The Brunei Fertilizer Industries (BFI) owns a

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plant is also planned to be built in the site; the plant is developed by the German conglomerate

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and expected to operate by 2021.

Agriculture

Paddy plantations are another source of industry from the

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in the area. The Marsya Farm company was established in 2000 and registered under the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food which was originally based in the Sungai Liang Agricultural Development Area (KKP),

with an area of .

References

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