Kampong Kumbang Pasang (
Malay: Kampung Kumbang Pasang), or simply Kumbang Pasang, is a
village within
Mukim Kianggeh in
Brunei-Muara District,
Brunei. It is also part of the municipal area of the capital
Bandar Seri Begawan.[2] The population was 563 in 2016.[1] It has the
postcode BA1511.[3] The village formerly hosts a rubber plantation and was named Kumbang Pasang Estate.[4] Notably the village was once its own
Mukim, known as Mukim Kumbang Pasang.[5]
Name
Kumbang Pasang, which is English for
eddy water, Others said that the name was derived from the term kumbang, which means
beetle.[6]
History
James Hatton Hall founded the Kumbang Pasang Estate in 1910.[7] Later in 1919, the
Labu Estate in
Temburong District was superseded as the primary site for
rubber planting by the Kumbang Pasang Estate and the
Gadong Estate.[8] The majority of the area was utilized for rubber plantations prior to the discovery of
oil. By the middle of the 1920s, land for cultivating rubber was in high demand. The government urged residents of
Kampong Ayer to relocate to dry ground (such as Kumbang Pasang and
Tungkadeh)[9] and start farming.[10] According to a 1924 source, Brunei United Plantations Limited (BUPL) owned four key rubber plantations in Kumbang Pasang,
Menglait,
Berakas and
Melabau. On the morning of 27 April 1933, there was one call for a
smoke house fire on the Kumbang Pasang Estate. Before the fire department arrived, the fire was already well under way, yet some of the structure could still be used.[11] The plantation in Kumbang Pasang has a total area of 346 acres (140 ha). In 1953, the BUPL sold the Kumbang Pasang Estate to the
Government of Brunei, and the government would establish a rubber nursery a year later.[12]
By 1927, an earth road was made from
Brunei Town to Kumbang Pasang Estate.[13] In order to get
motor vehicles to BUPL's Kumbang Pasang Estate, a 3 miles (4.8 km) road was built in 1932,[14] later named Jalan Kumbang Pasang.[15] Additionally, the road was one of the first major
thoroughfares to be constructed as part of the government's initial RKN (Five Year National Development Plan) of 1953–1958. This road superseded an older temporary one constructed in the late 1920s to allow cars to go through to a rubber plantation. It connected to the
Berakas and
Muara localities and, by the late 1960s, to the
Gadong area.[16] Planned for completion by 1957, a road connecting from Kumbang Pasang to the
Brunei Airport.[17] 1979 saw the reservation of state land for Kampong Kumbang Pasang's
landing stage and
slipway site.[18]
Mukim Kumbang Pasang was combined with
Mukim Kianggeh for the purposes of the 2001
census.[19] By 2014, the drainage in the village improved as it was previously
flood-prone due to its close proximity with the
Kedayan River.[20]
Economy
The village's first income was their rubber plantation from 1910 to 1953.[7] A description of the examination of the two
oils,
pericarp oil and
kernel oil, from a sample of fruits from Kumbang Pasang Estate was provided in a previous 1940 issue of The Malayan Agricultural Journal.[21]
Transportation
In 1972, Jalan Kumbang Pasang was resurfaced from Jalan Tutong junction to Jalan Tapak Kuda.[22] By 1986, the road connects to Jalan Dato Mohd. Taib in the South.[23]
Infrastructure
Commercial
One Riverside, a residential and commercial development area.[24][25]
^Office, Great Britain Colonial (1957).
Brunei. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 166.
^Development, Great Britain Ministry of Overseas (1979).
Technical Co-operation. Department of Technical Co-operation Library.
^Perangkaan, Brunei Jabatan (2005).
Report on the 2001 Population Census. Department of Statistics, Department of Economic Planning and Development, Prime Minister's Office, Brunei Darussalam. p. 64.