Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer

Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer
Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer
Village
	Burong Pingai Ayer located on the furthest left of Kampong Ayer
	Location in Brunei
	Coordinates: 4°52′34″N 114°56′02″E
Country	Brunei
District	Brunei-Muara
Mukim	Burong Pingai Ayer
Population (2016)[1]
• Total	514
Time zone	UTC+8 (BNT)
Postcode	BM1126

Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer is a village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, within Mukim Burong Pingai Ayer. It is located within Kampong Ayer, the traditional stilted settlements on the Brunei River in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 514 in 2016.[1]

Name

Due to its location at the hulu (the interior or beginning) of the Brunei River, Kampong Burong Pingai was previously known as Kampong Ulu-Ulu. According to legend, the hamlet was named Kampong Burong Pingai because a pembalat (a person who uses a bamboo basket to capture fish or builds fish traps out of bamboo) from Kampong Saba discovered a white bird making the sound "pingai, pingai, pingai" at the settlement. The man was aware that Si Pingai, a white bird owned by Sultan Muhammad's wife, had recently passed away. The bird was captured, and it was given to the Sultan. From that time, the village has been referred to as Kampong Burong Pingai. According to legend, Sultan Muhammad's wife was a Johor princess, and the incident took place somewhere about 1368.[2]

The village was formerly known as "Kampong Burong Pingai" until the name was added with the term "Ayer" in the 1960s to distinguish it from the land village Kampong Burong Pingai Berakas.[3]

Facilities

Mosque

Pehin Datu Imam Haji Abdul Mokti Mosque is the village mosque and was inaugurated by His Royal Highness Prince Sufri Bolkiah on 6 February 1981.[4] The mosque can accommodate 350 worshippers.[4] It is named after a certain pious man who was born in the village.[3]

References

"Population and Housing Census Update Final Report 2016" (PDF). www.deps.gov.bn. Department of Statistics. December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
Mohd Yunos, Rozan (2013). SEMINAR UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ASIA, SOUTHEAST DIVISION (PDF). pp. 2, 7.
Wan Mohamad Sahran Wan Ahmadi (25 July 2015). "Menyelusuri Kampung Burong Pingai Ayer". Pelita Brunei (in Malay). Retrieved 4 July 2021.
"SenaraiMasjid - Masjid Pehin Datu Imam Haji Abdul Mokti, Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer". www.kheu.gov.bn (in Malay). Retrieved 4 July 2021.

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[census_2016-1] "Population and Housing Census Update Final Report 2016" (PDF). www.deps.gov.bn. Department of Statistics. December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

[2] Mohd Yunos, Rozan (2013). SEMINAR UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ASIA, SOUTHEAST DIVISION (PDF). pp. 2, 7.

[article-3] Wan Mohamad Sahran Wan Ahmadi (25 July 2015). "Menyelusuri Kampung Burong Pingai Ayer". Pelita Brunei (in Malay). Retrieved 4 July 2021.

[PDIHAM_mosque-4] "SenaraiMasjid - Masjid Pehin Datu Imam Haji Abdul Mokti, Kampong Burong Pingai Ayer". www.kheu.gov.bn (in Malay). Retrieved 4 July 2021.