Pulau Meranti is a village in

Sepang District The Sepang District is a district located in the southern part of the state of Selangor in Malaysia. Sepang District covers an area of around 600 square kilometres, and had a population of 190,889 in the 2010 Census (excluding foreigners). The ...

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

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History

It has an area estimated at about more than 100 hectares, explored and founded by a Dato' Gede Biro Bin Jenangkin ('Gede' meaning big in Javanese and 'Biro', an origin from

Palembang Palembang () is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River on the eastern lowland of southern Sumatra. It had a population of 1,668,848 at the 2020 Census. Palembang ...

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) around the 1890s. Until today, the fourth and fifth generation descendants of Dato' Gede Biro still reside in this village and the original residents of this village use Palembang dialect as a spoken dialect of

Malay Malay may refer to: Languages * Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore ** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century ** Indonesi ...

in daily conversations.

Features

Pulau Meranti village is divided into five areas: # Kampung Masjid (name given because it has the only mosque located in the village) # Kampung Pulau Meranti Dalam (part of it is now a new housing development known as ''Taman Putra Perdana'') # Pulau Ibol (lost due to development) # Kampung Batu Sembilan # Kampung Sg Rasau # Pulau serbok

Notable events

On 8 March 2014, the

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination ...

disappeared with 239 people on board, following its last contact with air traffic control 41 minutes after take-off. On 9 March 2014, the Government of Malaysia had established an Operations Coordination Centre at the National Disaster Command Centre (NDCC) in Pulau Meranti, Cyberjaya to monitor the development of the situation.The Star
Missing MAS flight: Malaysia grateful for assistance in search and rescue operations, says Anifah
9 March 2014

Transportation

Car

The

SKVE The South Klang Valley Expressway, or SKVE ( Malay: ''Lebuhraya Lembah Klang Selatan''), is an expressway in the southern part of Klang Valley, Malaysia's most densely populated region. This dual-carriageway provides links to the booming towns i ...

, MEX and LDP highways run around the boundaries of this village, as well as Jalan Puchong.

Public transportation

The nearest railway/metro station is the

Putrajaya/Cyberjaya ERL station ta, புத்ராஜெயா செண்ட்ரல் , address = Presint 7, Putrajaya , borough = , country = Malaysia , coordinates = , grid_name = , grid_position ...

on the

KLIA Transit The ERL KLIA Transit is a commuter rail service which serves as an airport rail link to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia. It runs from KL Sentral, the main railway station of Kuala Lumpur to KLIA as well as its low-co ...

system. A station on the MRT Putrajaya Line Line will be built near this village.

Causeway Link Causeway Link (service brands) operated by Handal Indah Sdn Bhd is a public bus operator in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It operates cross-border services into Singapore via the Johor–Singapore Causeway and Malaysia–Singapore Second Link. They al ...

bus 608 goes towards

IOI Puchong Jaya LRT station IOI Puchong Jaya LRT station is a light rapid transit station at Puchong Jaya, a township in Puchong, Selangor. It is located near IOI Mall, and its name was taken from IOI Group and Bandar Puchong Jaya, and not under the Station Naming Rights ...

via Puchong Utama bus hub, Batu 14 Puchong and

Bandar Puteri Puchong Bandar Puteri Puchong () is an affluent residential and commercial township in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. It was developed by the IOI Group, same as Bandar Puchong Jaya and Bandar Kinrara served as main residential hub of Puchong town. Within ...

. The Puchong Utama bus hub connects with RapidKL bus 600, towards

Pasar Seni zh, 中央艺术坊 ta, மத்திய சந்தை , location = Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , website = , mapframe-zoom = 14 , start_date = 1888 , completion_date = 1937 , opening ...

Kuala Lumpur , anthem = '' Maju dan Sejahtera'' , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , su ...

References

Villages in Selangor Sepang District {{Selangor-geo-stub