Kilanas

Kilanas
Kilanas
	Village
	Location in Brunei
	Coordinates: 4°52′09″N114°51′47″E / 4.869228°N 114.862997°E Coordinates: 4°52′09″N114°51′47″E / 4.869228°N 114.862997°E
Country	Brunei
District	Brunei-Muara
Mukim	Kilanas
Government [1]
• Village head	Mohd Rais Sabtu
Postcode	BF2520

Last updated April 14, 2019

Kilanas is a settlement in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. It is officially a village subdivision under the mukim of the same name in the district. The postcode for Kilanas is BF2520.^[2]^[3]

Brunei-Muara is the northernmost district in Brunei. It is the smallest of Brunei's four districts in terms of area but by far the most populous, containing over half the country's population. It is the most important and bustling district because the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan which is also the state capital, is the seat of the government ministries and departmental headquarters as well as the centre of business activities. Other major towns in the Brunei-Muara district include Muara town. The Brunei-Muara district houses the largest and deepest port in Brunei, the Muara Port.

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.

A mukim is the second-level administrative division of Brunei, and the primary subdivision of a district. The community is headed by a penghulu. A mukim is further divided into villages.

Name

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

Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. 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

Kilanas is administered as a village, the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei. It is one of the subdivisions under the mukim of the same name (Malay : Mukim Kilanas), which is a subdistrict of Brunei-Muara. The community of Kilanas is headed by a village head (Malay : ketua kampung) and the incumbent is Mohd Rais bin Sabtu.^[1]^[4] Kilanas is also a designated postcode area with the postcode BF2520.^[2]^[3]

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.

Kilanas is a mukim (subdistrict) in the Brunei-Muara District of Brunei. It is located in the southwestern part of the district, bordering the mukims of Gadong 'B' and Kianggeh to the north-east, Lumapas to the east and south, Pengkalan Batu to the south-west and Sengkurong to the west and north.

A village head, village headman or village chief is the community leader of a village or a small town.

Education

Orang Kaya Setia Bakti Primary School is the public primary school which provides general primary education to the resident pupils of Kilanas. Meanwhile, Pengiran Anak Puteri Majeedah Nuurul Bolkiah Religious School is the ugama school in the area; the school provides Islamic religious primary education which is compulsory for Muslim children in the country.^[5]

Also located in Kilanas is Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School, a public secondary school which provides general secondary education for the residents of Kilanas as well as the surrounding settlements.

Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School is a government secondary school in Kilanas, a settlement in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. The school provides five years of general secondary education leading up to GCE O Level qualification. It is one of the schools under Cluster 2, a school district of the Ministry of Education.

Religion

Place of worship

There are two mosques in Kilanas, namely Kampong Kilanas Mosque and Duli Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Damit Mosque. The former is the village mosque and where as the latter is designated as the mosque for the entire mukim of Kilanas.

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[:2-1] 1 2 "Host of goodies for 90 residents of Kg Kilanas, Kg Jangsak – Borneo Bulletin Online". Borneo Bulletin Online. 2017-06-15. Retrieved 2018-04-23.

[:0-2] 1 2 "Brunei Postal Services - postcodes". post.gov.bn. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

[:1-3] 1 2 "Kampong Kilanas, Kilanas, Brunei Muara: BF2520". brn.postcodebase.com. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

[4] "Help 'on the way' to repair Kg Kilanas home | The BT Archive". btarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-04-23.

[5] "Brunei will remain a MIB-guided nation, thanks to religious education – Borneo Bulletin Online". Borneo Bulletin Online. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2018-04-23.