Tebedu District is a

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in the

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Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, ...

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. It is a part of

Serian Division Serian is a town, and the capital of the ''Serian'' (2,039.9 square kilometres) separated on 11 April 2015 from Samarahan Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is located about from Kuching. Sub-district headquarters towns are Balai Ringin and Teb ...

that consists of Serian, Siburan, and Tebedu districts. Before this, Tebedu District was a sub-district under Serian District which was then fully upgraded to a district in its own right. The majority of the population of this district is from the

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ethnic group. The administrative town for this district is the town of

Tebedu Tebedu (also known as Bandar Mutiara) is a border town in the Serian division of southwestern Sarawak, Malaysia, on the Indonesia-Malaysia border. It lies approximately south of the state capital Kuching. It is the administrative seat for ...

. Tebedu District has an area of approximately . It is also the first international gateway of the Malaysian-Indonesia border, connecting Kuching in

dan

Pontianak Pontianak or Khuntien is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.31 km2 in the delta of the Kapuas River at a point where it is joined ...

West Kalimantan West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak. The province has an area of 147,307&nbs ...

. The Indonesian town bordering this district is Entikong. Tebedu Immigration Complex was also built at the border between both countries. In 1991, more than 57,000 Indonesians entered Malaysia via Entikong by using the immigration centre located between West Kalimantan and Tebedu District.

Etymology

The name "Tebedu" comes from a term in Bidayuh language, ''batuh badu'' which literally means "dried rock". The said rock is located at Kujang Mawang Village and Tesu Mawang Village and is reputed to have never been wet or inundated by water.

History

On 23 October 1974, Tebedu became a sub-district under the administration of Serian District, managed by Sarawak Administrative Officer. The holder of the post during that time was Mering Wan. In Oktober 2016, Tebedu Sub-district was Daerah Kecil Tebedu was upgraded to a full-fledged district as announced by the then Member of the State Legislative Assembly for Tebedu, Michael Manyin Jawong. A landmark was built to commemorate the event.

Demographics

Based on

2010 Malaysian Census The Population and Housing Census of Malaysia, 2010, was conducted by Department of Statistics from 6 July to 22 August 2010. It was carried out in three phases; the first phase from 6 to 21 July, the second phase from 22 July to 6 August, and t ...

, Tebedu District had 8,204 residents with a population density of 19 people per square kilometre, which categorised this district as a district with a sparse population. In terms of ethnicity, most of the people who lived here belonged to the

ethnic group, which numbered at 7,421 people. The lowest was of

Melanau Melanau or ''A-Likou'' (meaning River people in Mukah dialect) is an ethnic group indigenous to Sarawak, Malaysia. They are among the earliest settlers of Sarawak. They speak in the Melanau language, which is a part of the North Bornean branc ...

ethnic group, with only 19 people.

Economy

The main economic activity carried out by residents in Tebedu District is agriculture, with a percentage of 88.2%. This is followed by the private labours (5.08%), public employees (3.66%), private employees (2.29%), business (0.74%) and other economic activities (0.03%). Among the crops cultivated in this district are

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, cocoa,

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and

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. Various agricultural processing industries for the crops are carried out in Tebedu because of its excellent infrastructure facilities.

Facilities

Tebedu District has good facilites. It has two health clinics, namely Tebedu Health Clinic and Amo Health Clinic. Some schools that operate in this district are Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tebedu, Sekolah Kebangsaan Tebedu, Sekolah Kebangsaan Gahat Mawang, Sekolah Kebangsaan Kujang Mawang, Sekolah Kebangsaan Tesu, Sekolah Kebangsaan Temong, Sekolah Kebangsaan Tepoi, Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungan, Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Sameran, Sekolah Kebangsaan Tema and Sekolah Kebangsaan Kujang Sain. Telecommunication is provided by

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and

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, while the water supply is managed by Bekalan Air Bersih (Clean Water Supply) by JKR in 30 villages including Tebedu Town and through

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in 20 villages. SESCO (

Sarawak Energy Sarawak Energy is the electric utility company of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is one of Malaysia's three electrical companies, the other two being Tenaga Nasional, supplying the Peninsular Malaysia, and Sabah Electricity, which serves t ...

) handles the electricity supply across the district. Tebedu is also connected through the Serian-Tebedu Road which has a length of . Built since 1990, the Tebedu ICQS (Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security (ICQS) Complex at the border crossing was planned for upgrading or rebuilding in 2018 to further improve its services and facilities to be on par with the ICQS at Entikong in Indonesia as well as to foster cross-border trade and tourism between

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

and

. The government also envisioned Tebedu ICQS as a modern complex with the latest infrastructure to facilitate cross-border movement and trade. These initiatives will develop Tebedu into an economic area and to strengthen the security between

and

Geography

Tebedu is one of the first international gateways in Malaysia. The climate in the Tebedu area is the

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af). The average temperature is .

May May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May ...

is the hottest month with the temperature reaching . January, meanwhile, is categorised as the coolest month with a temperature of . The average

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in Tebedu is 3798 millimetres per year, with Januari recording the highest precipitation of 530 millimetres. The lowest precipitation is in July (165.9 millimetres).

Administration

Tebedu District is separated into 75 villages with each village having a leader (either a ''tuai rumai'' or chaiperson of the Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan Kampung or JKKK (Village Development and Security Committee). Tebedu District is fully administered by the Tebedu District Office. Previously, it was administered by the Tebedu Sub-district Office. Tebedu district is led by a district officer. Politically, Tebedu has its own state constituency for election purposes,

, which has been represented in

Sarawak State Legislative Assembly The Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is the legislative chamber of the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Sarawak; the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak forms the other part of the legislature. The Assembly is modelled after the ...

since 1991. The Member of the State Legislative Assembly for the constituency is Michael Manyin Jawong from

Gabungan Parti Sarawak The Sarawak Parties Alliance ( Malay: ''Gabungan Parti Sarawak''; abbrev: GPS) is a Sarawak-based national political alliance in Malaysia. It was established in 2018 by four former Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties operating solely in S ...

. Tebedu constituency hasd six polling districts, Bentang, Lanchang, Tebedu, Amo and Mengarat. Each voting district has only one voting location.

External links

Pentadbiran Bahagian Serian
Accessed on 22 December 2020.

References

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