Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata
village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei
Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata (Malay: Kampung Perpindahan Mata-Mata) or simply known as Perpindahan Mata-Mata, is a public housing estate and designated village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, on the outskirts of the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 2,385 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'B'. The postcode is BE1918.
Etymology
The village was originally known as Merlimau. It could be named after a neighboring village, Kampong Mata-Mata. The additional name of Perpindahan translates to Transfer.
History
Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata was established in 1983 as one of the settlement areas under the relocation program in the 20th century, which is a government program for Kampong Ayer residents to move and settle on land. This village is also for the resettlement of people in several villages who lost their homes due to a fire. The residents who started moving to the village in early 1983 were in stages.
“Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata” enters the record as village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kampong, Perpindahan and Mata-Mata can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kampong, Perpindahan and Mata-Mata provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q55430144. Authority coordinates are 4.898, 114.885. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 1983.
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How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Kampong Perpindahan Mata-Mata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.