Penghulu ( Jawi : ڤڠهولو ; also Pěnghulu ) is the headman or chief of a region in traditional societies in the Malay Archipelago . The term is currently used in Brunei and Malaysia as the community leader of the smaller country subdivision or settlement.
5-778: The word penghulu comes from agentive prefix peng- , and the word hulu , meaning "head", and could be translated as "headman". It is cognate with the Tagalog pangulo – the official title of the President of the Philippines . Traditionally, the Minangkabau who at the end of the 17th century settled at Negeri Sembilan , in present-day Malaysia , chose from among themselves a penghulu. Several of these penghulus, notably that of Sungai Ujong , Jelebu , Johol and Rembau , became powerful enough to dominate other penghulus. By
10-476: The verb drive . Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology , that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of morphemes into derivational morphemes (see word formation ) and inflectional ones is not generally a straightforward theoretical question, and different authors can make different decisions as to
15-614: The early part of the 18th century, the leaders of these four districts started calling themselves Undang . Between 1821 and 1838 (the Padri War ), many Penghulus had allied themselves with Dutch interests in fighting off Wahabite -inspired, Islamic extremism in the area. The situations in Brunei were similar with what was happened in current Indonesia and Malaysia. Office of the Penghulu for ruling executive government in mukim level
20-571: The mukims citizen upon reaching 18 years old and more. In the Philippines , the cognate 'Pangulo' is the Filipino word for 'President'. Agent noun In linguistics , an agent noun (in Latin , nomen agentis ) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action , and that identifies an entity that does that action . For example, driver is an agent noun formed from
25-744: Was created by British administrators to help British colonial government collecting tax from Brunei citizens. Until the reign of Omar Ali Saifuddien III , those given peerage titles, usually, will be reign in particular mukims decided by King of Brunei. In Brunei , penghulu is an administrative post and is the community leader of a mukim or subdistrict, the second-level administrative division below district which consists of several towns or locally known as kampong (village) ( Malay : daerah ). Until 2015, Appointment of penghulu decided by District Office after receiving recommendations from members of Mukim Consultative Council. After 2015, appointment of penghulus are conducted through local elections by each of
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