Bukit Beruang, Brunei

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Bukit Beruang

Bukit Beruang National Housing Scheme
Perpindahan Bukit Beruang
Village
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Location in Brunei
Coordinates: 4°44′00″N114°36′29″E / 4.733338°N 114.608070°E / 4.733338; 114.608070 Coordinates: 4°44′00″N114°36′29″E / 4.733338°N 114.608070°E / 4.733338; 114.608070
Country Brunei
District Tutong
Mukim Telisai
Government
[1]
 •  Village head Ahmad Aman
Postcodes
TC3145, TC3345

Bukit Beruang is a populated place in Tutong District, Brunei. It is officially a village subdivision under Telisai, a mukim (subdistrict) in the district. [2] Bukit Beruang is primarily a public housing estate of the National Housing Scheme, a government housing programme.

Tutong District District

Tutong District or simply Tutong is one of the four districts of Brunei. The main town is Tutong. The district borders the South China Sea to the north, the Bruneian district of Brunei-Muara and the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the east and the Bruneian district of Belait to the west. The Tutong River flows through the district. With the size of 1,166 square kilometres, Tutong District is the third largest district in the country. As of 2016, it has the population of 49,438 and comprises five main ethnic communities: Tutong, Dusun, Kedayan, Iban and Chinese.

Brunei Southeast Asian coastal sovereign state

Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace, is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, the country is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is separated into two parts by the Sarawak district of Limbang. Brunei is the only sovereign state completely on the island of Borneo; the remainder of the island's territory is divided between the nations of Malaysia and Indonesia. Brunei's population was 423,196 in 2016.

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.

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Name

As village subdivision, Bukit Beruang is officially known in Malay as Kampung Bukit Beruang (Kampung is sometimes spelt as Kampong), which literally means 'Bukit Beruang Village'. However, the public housing area is also known as Bukit Beruang National Housing Scheme (Malay : Rancangan Perumahan Negara Bukit Beruang), which is named after the housing programme of the estate. The housing area is also sometimes known as Perpindahan Bukit Beruang.

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

Bukit Beruang is officially governed as a village (Malay : kampung), the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei; it is one of the villages under the mukim of Telisai. [2] The community of Bukit Beruang is administered under a village head (Malay : ketua kampung) and the incumbent is Ahmad bin Aman. [1] [3]

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.

A mukim is a type of administrative division used in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The word mukim is loanword in English. However, it was also originally a loanword in Malay from the Arabic word: مقيم. The closest English translation for mukim is precinct, commune, ward or parish.

Telisai is a mukim or subdistrict in Tutong, a district of Brunei. It is headed by a penghulu, and the incumbent is Ramli bin Lahit.

Unlike other village subdivisions which generally correspond equally to postcode areas, Bukit Beruang is designated into two postcode areas, thus having two postcodes: TC3145 is the postcode for the original Bukit Beruang settlement, which is located along Jalan Bukit Beruang, where as TC3345 corresponds to the public housing area. [4] [5] [6] The postcode areas were also village subdivisions but the latter have since been merged and is now administered as one subdivision.

Postal codes in Brunei are known as postcodes and they are alphanumeric, consisting of two letters followed by four digits. Postcodes in Brunei are issued by the Postal Services Department, a government department under the Ministry of Communications.

Education

Bukit Beruang is home to Tutong Sixth Form Centre, the only sixth form college in the district. It is also home to Sayyidina 'Othman Secondary School, which provides secondary education for the residents of Bukit Beruang as well as the settlements in Telisai.

Tutong Sixth Form Centre is a sixth form centre in Tutong District, Brunei. It first opened its doors in 2012, and since then, accepts mainly secondary school leavers from the district.

Sixth form college type of school for students aged 16 to 19 which offers advanced school-level qualifications

A sixth form college is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school-level qualifications such as General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations. In Singapore and India, this is known as a junior college. The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the phrase "sixth form college" as the English name for a lycée.

Sayyidina Othman Secondary School Secondary school in Bukit Beruang, Tutong, Brunei

Sayyidina 'Othman Secondary School is a government secondary school in Bukit Beruang, a settlement in Tutong District, Brunei. The school provides five years of general secondary education leading up to O Level qualification. As of 2018, the principal of Sayyidina 'Othman Secondary School is Vincent Andrew.

Primary education is available for the resident pupils of Bukit Beruang and provided in two government primary schools, namely Pengiran Kesuma Negara Bukit Beruang Primary School and Perpindahan Kampong Bukit Beruang II Primary School. The former also shares grounds with the Religious School of the namesake, which provides the Ugama or Islamic religious primary education; it is compulsory for Muslim pupils in the country. [7]

Infrastructure

Housing

Almost all of the houses in Bukit Beruang have been built as part of the public housing estate under the National Housing Scheme (Malay : Rancangan Perumahan Negara or RPN), a government housing programme for the citizens of Brunei. The Bukit Beruang National Housing Scheme has an area of 49 hectares (120 acres) and as of 2018 consist of 530 detached houses, 1,368 units of terraces, and 368 'cluster' houses of 4-units each. [8] It is one of the two public housing estates in the district; the other one is Telisai Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme. [9]

Miscellaneous

Dewan Kemasyarakatan Bukit Beruang provides the venue for social and communal events for the residents of Bukit Beruang as well as the rest of Telisai subdistrict.

Rancangan Perumahan Negara Bukit Beruang Mosque is the mosque in Bukit Beruang which serves the need for its Muslim residents for congregational prayers, in particular the weekly Friday prayers.

There is a fire station in Bukit Beruang. Bukit Beruang Fire and Rescue Station was inaugurated in 2014 and is one of three fire stations in the district, the other two located in Tutong and Lamunin. [10]

The Tutong branch of the Housing Development Department, the government department which manages the public housing, is also located in Bukit Beruang. [11]

See also

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  5. ↑ "Kampong Bukit Beruang, Telisai, Tutong: TC3145 | Brunei Postcode". brn.postcodebase.com. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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