Kampong Ukong () or simply known as Ukong, is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the central part of

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 ...

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 town

Pekan Tutong Tutong or officially known as Tutong Town ( ms, Pekan Tutong) is a municipality town in Mukim Pekan Tutong Tutong District, Brunei. It is located about from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Governance It is officially a Municipa ...

. The population of the village proper was 381 in 2016. It is one of the villages within

Mukim Ukong Mukim Ukong is a mukim in Tutong District, Brunei. The population was 2,272 in 2016. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Ukong, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in the south-west of Tutong District, bo ...

, a

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in the district.

Name

According to folktales, in the olden days there was a

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known as Nong Anggeh located between the

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and Nong Anggeh Hill. The condition of this swamp was bumpy and difficult for pedestrians to pass through. This swamp is also the only main road leading to the opposite village. Since there was no other road at that time, the villagers had to go through that road. When they go through the swamp while carrying their children then they have to support or mean to carry their children on their shoulders. The conditions and processing caused this area to be called 'kukong'. Over time this call remained until today and was referred to as 'Kampung Ukong'.

Administration

The

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() oversees the village proper as well as Kampong Pangkalan Dong, Kampong Pangkalan Ran, Kampong Pak Bidang and Kampong Sungai Damit Pemadang, with a total area of and a total population of 1,292.

Demography

As of 2018, the village have 220 houses inhabited by 1,292 residents consisting of 622 men and 630 women. According to the head of the village, the population of the village consists of 1,200

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; followed by the

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91 people and the rest of the Iban tribe.

Economy

Among the products produced by the residents of Kampong Ukong is ''ambulung'' (

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), which the processing place of ambulung is a place that is often visited by tourists from abroad and within the country. The ''ambulung'' company owned by ''Syarikat Perusahaan Sagu Yong Pin Chin dan Anak-Anak'' has been operating since the beginning of 1971 and has modern equipment run by workers consisting of four local residents and four from abroad where before all the workers the factory consists of family members only. The packaging of sago

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is by using

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. The sago flour production process is carried out four times within ten days which means four times the process is done in the sago factory to obtain sago flour results which are estimated to weigh 800 kilograms of sago flour for each processing time.

Infrastructure

The village primary school is Dato Pemancha Saging Ukong Primary School. It also shares grounds with Dato Pemancha Saging Ukong Religious School, the village school for the country's Islamic religious primary education.

Notable people

* Othman Uking (born 1937), civil servant and politician

References

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