Kampong Kumbang Pasang (), or simply Kumbang Pasang, is a

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within

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. It is also part of the municipal area of the capital

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. The population was 563 in 2016. It has the

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BA1511. The village formerly hosts a rubber plantation and was named Kumbang Pasang Estate. Notably the village was once its own

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, known as Mukim Kumbang Pasang.

Name

Kumbang Pasang, which is English for eddy water, Others said that the name was derived from the term ''kumbang'', which means

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History

James Hatton Hall founded the Kumbang Pasang Estate in 1910. Later in 1919, the Labu Estate in

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was superseded as the primary site for rubber planting by the Kumbang Pasang Estate and the Gadong Estate. The majority of the area was utilized for rubber plantations prior to the discovery of

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. By the middle of the 1920s, land for cultivating rubber was in high demand. The government urged residents of

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to relocate to dry ground (such as Kumbang Pasang and Tungkadeh) and start farming. According to a 1924 source, Brunei United Plantations Limited (BUPL) owned four key rubber plantations in Kumbang Pasang, Menglait,

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and Melabau. On the morning of 27 April 1933, there was one call for a

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fire on the Kumbang Pasang Estate. Before the fire department arrived, the fire was already well under way, yet some of the structure could still be used. The plantation in Kumbang Pasang has a total area of . In 1953, the BUPL sold the Kumbang Pasang Estate to the

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, and the government would establish a rubber nursery a year later. By 1927, an earth road was made from

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to Kumbang Pasang Estate. In order to get

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to BUPL's Kumbang Pasang Estate, a road was built in 1932, later named Jalan Kumbang Pasang. Additionally, the road was one of the first major

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to be constructed as part of the government's initial RKN (Five Year National Development Plan) of 1953–1958. This road superseded an older temporary one constructed in the late 1920s to allow cars to go through to a rubber plantation. It connected to the

and Muara localities and, by the late 1960s, to the Gadong area. Planned for completion by 1957, a road connecting from Kumbang Pasang to the

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. 1979 saw the reservation of state land for Kampong Kumbang Pasang's

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stage and

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site. Mukim Kumbang Pasang was combined with

for the purposes of the 2001

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. By 2014, the drainage in the village improved as it was previously

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-prone due to its close proximity with the

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Economy

The village's first income was their rubber plantation from 1910 to 1953. A description of the examination of the two

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, pericarp oil and kernel oil, from a sample of fruits from Kumbang Pasang Estate was provided in a previous 1940 issue of The Malayan Agricultural Journal.

Transportation

In 1972, Jalan Kumbang Pasang was resurfaced from Jalan Tutong junction to Jalan Tapak Kuda. By 1986, the road connects to Jalan Dato Mohd. Taib in the South.

Infrastructure

Commercial

* One Riverside, a residential and commercial development area. *

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Headquarters, foundation laying on 14 May 2018. * Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah (YSHHB) Headquarters.

Government

* Bandar Seri Begawan Municipal Department, the capital's

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building. * Rumah Jerambak, official residence of Menteri Besar of Brunei.

Education

* In 1941, the first building of St. George's School was constructed.

References

Villages in Brunei-Muara District Neighbourhoods in Bandar Seri Begawan {{Brunei-geo-stub