Ijok is a mukim in Kuala Selangor District , Selangor , Malaysia . It is located along Federal Route 54 .
5-561: Sited at a junction that leads to the bigger and more developed Bestari Jaya ( Batang Berjuntai ), Pekan Ijok is, in a sense, a ' cowboy town' with a main street lined with shops and small buildings on both sides. The Malays here are largely of Javanese stock, and claim their forefathers from Indonesia founded the town in the early 1900s. Many are smallholders or work on their own land while some work in local shops and factories. The Chinese came to do business or to open vegetable farms and have since stayed to set up home here. Likewise,
10-445: A literal "dangling branch" that was seen there when the town was first established; it was named by the resident British administrator. Many locals continue to use the old name, and outsiders unaware of the name change are often confused by the new signage. The township is served by only two buses: 3°23′N 101°25′E / 3.383°N 101.417°E / 3.383; 101.417 This Selangor location article
15-579: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bestari Jaya Bestari Jaya (formerly Batang Berjuntai ) is a town and a mukim in Kuala Selangor District , Selangor , Malaysia . It is 40 km NW from Kuala Lumpur . "Batang Berjuntai" means a dangling branch in Malay. There used to be a railway line connecting Batang Berjuntai with Batu Arang and onwards to the mainline of Malayan Railways at Kuang . The line between
20-601: The Indians have also found home here after the earlier settlers came to work in the rubber plantations. The constituency has 12,372 voters, 52 percent of whom are ethnic Malays, with 28 percent ethnic Indians and 21 percent Chinese- the biggest percentage of Indian voters in the Malaysian state or Parliament constituency. 3°19′18.5″N 101°24′48.9″E / 3.321806°N 101.413583°E / 3.321806; 101.413583 This Selangor location article
25-463: The town and Batu Arang was dismantled by the Japanese during World War II and never reconstructed. In 2007 the name Batang Berjuntai was renamed "Bestari Jaya" despite local resistance, as someone in authority rather mistakenly felt that "batang berjuntai" had phallic connotations ( batang is Malay slang for " penis ", and berjuntai translate directly as "dangle"). In fact the name referred to
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