A mukim is a type of administrative division used in Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia and Singapore . The word mukim is a loanword in English . However, it was also originally a loanword in Malay from the Arabic word: مقيم (meaning resident ). The closest English translation for mukim is township .
6-581: Pasir Salak is a mukim and historical riverside town in Perak Tengah District , Perak , Malaysia , about 45 minutes from the state capital, Ipoh. The British colonial official J.W.W. Birch , who had been sent to take up the position of the first British Resident in Perak, was assassinated at Pasir Salak as the result of a conspiracy involving the local chiefs Dato Maharaja Lela and Sepuntum. The British responded to Birch's assassination with
12-535: A military intervention during the Perak War . Today, Pasir Salak is also the name of the parliamentary constituency. Mukim In Brunei , a mukim is the immediate subdivision of a district ( Malay : daerah ). The equivalent English word for 'mukim' is 'township'. There are 38 mukims in Brunei . Each mukim is an administrative area made up of several kampung ( Malay for "village"). A mukim
18-547: A subdivision of an autonomous sub-district ( daerah kecil ), as per Section 11(c) of the National Land Code 1965. However, in Putrajaya the designation mukim is not used; the term presint (Malay for "precinct") is used instead. The northern state of Perlis , due to its small size, is not divided into daerahs , but directly into mukims . In Kelantan , the term daerah corresponds to
24-574: Is headed by a penghulu (Malay for "headman"), which is an elected office. The number of mukims in each of the districts in Brunei is as follows: The smallest mukim by area is Mukim Saba in the Brunei-Muara District. The largest mukim by area is Mukim Sukang in the Belait District . The last change in the mukim boundaries was in the late 1990s when Mukim Kumbang Pasang was merged into Mukim Kianggeh and Mukim Berakas
30-679: The mukim level in other states, whilst for Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia , owing to its large sizes, they are directly divided into divisions and in turn, divisions are divided into districts and the subdivision of each district is termed as a mukim instead. Each mukim is divided into a village or villages ( kampung or kampong ). In Singapore , a Mukim is a survey district. There are 34 Mukim survey districts in Singapore, as well as 30 Town Subdivision survey districts. The Town Subdivision survey districts are located in
36-483: Was divided into Mukim Berakas A and Mukim Berakas B. The number of mukims remained at 38. In Indonesia , mukim means 'a place to stay' or 'the one who stays', while pemukiman means 'a settlement'. The term mukim is used only in Aceh as a subdivision of a district . A mukim contains several villages . In Malaysia , a mukim can either be a subdivision of a daerah ( district or county ) or
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