Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer is a

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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, w ...

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, within Mukim Burong Pingai Ayer. It is located within

Kampong Ayer Kampong Ayer is a prominent traditional settlement in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It comprises neighbourhoods of traditional houses, schools and mosques built on stilts above the Brunei River near the capital's city centre. It ha ...

, the traditional stilted settlements on the

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in 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 s ...

. The population was 514 in 2016.

Name

Due to its location at the ''hulu'' (the interior or beginning) of the

, Kampong Burong Pingai was previously known as Kampong Ulu-Ulu. According to legend, the

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was named Kampong Burong Pingai because a ''pembalat'' (a person who uses a

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basket to capture fish or builds fish traps out of bamboo) from Kampong Saba discovered a white bird making the sound "pingai, pingai, pingai" at the settlement. The man was aware that Si Pingai, a white bird owned by Sultan Muhammad's wife, had recently passed away. The bird was captured, and it was given to the Sultan. From that time, the village has been referred to as Kampong Burong Pingai. According to legend, Sultan Muhammad's wife was a Johor princess, and the incident took place somewhere about 1368. The village was formerly known as "Kampong Burong Pingai" until the name was added with the term "Ayer" in the 1960s to distinguish it from the land village Kampong Burong Pingai Berakas.

History

Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer also cannot be denied from an unwanted tragedy because the village had experienced a fire in early 2000 which destroyed nine houses and while in early 2001 Dato Ahmad Primary School was hit by the incident followed by three houses in 2006.

Demography

As of 2015, Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer currently has 82 houses with a population of 587 people consisting of 288 males and 299 females including 52 senior citizens. The village is one of the villages under Mukim Burong Pingai Ayer.

Infrastructure

In the

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's concern, the village was also given facilities such as water supply, electricity, bridges, piers, mosques, schools and so on. Emphasizing the spirit of mutual understanding, the Burong Pingai Subdistrict Multi-Purpose Hall was built in 2014 with the aim of holding a feast, a celebration that can accommodate up to 800 people. Notably, the village is the home to the first ever mosque in Kampong Ayer.

Mosque

Pehin Datu Imam Haji Abdul Mokti Mosque is the village mosque and was inaugurated by His Royal Highness Prince Sufri Bolkiah on 6 February 1981. The mosque can accommodate 350 worshippers. It is named after a certain pious man who was born in the village.

Notable people

* Badaruddin Othman (born 1942), a politician and minister. * Pehin Datu Imam Haji Awang Abdul Mokti Haji Nassar, a politician * Suhaili Mohiddin, a politician

References

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