Beribi

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Beribi
Village
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Location in Brunei
Coordinates: 4°53′14″N114°54′00″E / 4.887225°N 114.899883°E / 4.887225; 114.899883 Coordinates: 4°53′14″N114°54′00″E / 4.887225°N 114.899883°E / 4.887225; 114.899883
Country Brunei
District Brunei-Muara
Mukim Gadong 'B'
Postcode
BE1118

Beribi is a neighbourhood and commercial area in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is officially a village subdivision under Gadong 'B', a mukim (subdistrict) of Brunei-Muara District. Beribi comprises the residential neighbourhood, as well as home to the Beribi Industrial area which is a dedicated site for several light industries and services-related businesses in the capital.

Commercial area activity area with essentially shops, restaurants and various services, reselling products to the public, and frequently grouped together within commercial galeries, malls or commercial centers

Commercial areas in a city are areas, districts, or neighbourhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", commercial strip, or shopping centre. Commercial activity within cities includes the buying and selling of goods and services in retail businesses, wholesale buying and selling, financial establishments, and a wide variety of uses that are broadly classified as "business." While commercial activities typically take up a relatively small amount of land, they are extremely important to a community’s economy. They provide employment, facilitate the circulation of money, and often serve many other roles important to the community, such as public gathering and cultural events.

Bandar Seri Begawan Municipality in Brunei-Muara, Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital city of the Sultanate of Brunei. It is officially governed as a municipality. Bandar Seri Begawan has an estimated population of 100,700, and including the whole Brunei-Muara District, the metro area has an estimated population of 279,924.

Brunei Southeast Asian coastal sovereign state

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Name

As a village subdivision, Beribi is officially known in Malay as Kampung Beribi (Kampung is sometimes spelt as Kampung), which literally means 'Beribi Village'.

Malay language Austronesian language

Malay is an Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as parts of Thailand. A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. It is also used as a trading language in the southern Philippines, including the southern parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula, the Sulu Archipelago and the southern predominantly Muslim-inhabited municipalities of Bataraza and Balabac in Palawan.

Administration

The area of Beribi is administered as a village, the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei. It is one of the villages under Gadong 'B', a mukim or subdistrict of Brunei-Muara. As a village, its community is headed by a ketua kampung or village head.

Villages of Brunei settlement and local administrative unit in Brunei

A village is the third and lowest administrative division of Brunei. It is headed by a village head. Villages are subdivisions of the subdistricts of Brunei. A village may have a population ranging from a few hundreds to less than ten thousand people.

Administrative divisions of Brunei cover article for different levels of administrative divisions of Brunei

The administrative divisions of Brunei mainly consist of daerah (districts), mukim (subdistricts) and kampung or kampong (villages). They are organised hierarchically, with daerah being the first level and kampong the third level.

Gadong 'B' is a mukim or subdistrict in the Brunei-Muara District of Brunei. It is located in the central western part of the Brunei-Muara district bordering the mukims of Gadong 'A' to the north, Berakas 'A' to the north-east, Kianggeh to the east and south and Kilanas to the south and west. Gadong 'B' was previously part of the Gadong subdistrict, before it was split into two in 2007, with the other one being Gadong 'A'.

Since 2007, with the spatial expansion of Bandar Seri Begawan's jurisdiction, Beribi has also been subsumed under the municipality. [1]

Beribi is also a designated postcode area with the postcode BE1118. [2]

Education

The main campus of Kemuda Institute is located in Beribi; Kemuda Institute is one of the few private, post-secondary institutions providing vocational courses.

Kemuda Institute

Kemuda Institute (KI) is a private college in Brunei. It was established in 2004 and has campuses in Beribi in Bandar Seri Begawan and Kuala Belait in Belait District. Kemuda Institute mainly provides vocational courses in computing and information technology, leading up to BTEC qualification by Pearson as well as diplomas by NCC Education, two UK-based vocational qualifications providers. The current Chairman of Kemuda Institute is Abdul Razak bin Muhammad, who is also the founder of the college.

There is a government primary school in Beribi, namely Beribi Telanai Primary School, which provides general primary education to the resident pupils. The Ugama or the Islamic religious primary education, which is compulsory for the Muslim pupils in the country, is also provided in Beribi at Beribi Religious School.

Economy

The main commercial activity in Beribi is located at the Beribi Industrial area. The area is managed by the Darussalam Enterprise or DARe, a statutory body, which provides infrastructural facilities for light industry- and services-related businesses. [3] The area comprises the Beribi Industrial Site and Complex, which provides land and building units respectively. [4] [5]

Miscellaneous

Kampong Beribi Mosque is the primary mosque for the Muslim residents, mainly to fulfill the need for Jumu'ah or the congregational Friday prayers. [6] The mosque has congregational capacity of 500 at one time. [6]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Brunei Postal Services - postcodes". post.gov.bn. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  3. ↑ "Home - DARE". dare.gov.bn. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
  4. ↑ "DARE - Beribi". dare.gov.bn. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
  5. ↑ "DARE - Complexes". www.dare.gov.bn. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
  6. 1 2 "SenaraiMasjid - Masjid Kampong Beribi". www.kheu.gov.bn. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
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