UTAR NEW VILLAGE COMMUNITY PROJECT

REPORT

NAME OF NEW VILLAGE:

SUNGAI BULOH 双溪布洛

SELANGOR

Project carried out by:

Student Name ID Number Course Year /

Semester

1. Lee Sy Ting 09UEB07351 Quantity Surveying Y2S2

2. Lee Voon Li 09UEB07905 Quantity Surveying Y2S2

3. Lim Shu Kian 09UEB06005 Quantity Surveying Y2S2

DATE OF COMPLETION:

APRIL 2011

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ABSTRACT

Sungai Buloh New Village’s name is originated from a river, Sungai Buloh.

Currently, there are around 5000 residents in Sungai Buloh. There are around 1300

factories in this village thus makes this new village becomes the village with the

largest number of factories in Selangor. Land shortage has become one of the major

problems in this area. Roads are very narrow and most of the roads are only one way

streets. This problem has also led to serious traffic congestion especially during peak

hours in this area.

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HISTORY

Sungai Buloh New Village’s name is originated from a river, Sungai Buloh.

From geography, the south from Sungai Buloh is Kepong’s mining place and the

north from Sungai Buloh is Kuala Selangor’s mining place. Thus, Sungai Buloh New

Village is famous for the mining activities in early period. It has at least 150 years of

history of the development of Sungai Buloh New Village. The KTM’s service at

Sungai Buloh helps to boost the development of the village too.

In year 1925, the British government built up the rubber institute. They

produced products using rubber and do some research regarding on it. They also

distributed some land to the villagers to help them to plant rubber trees. In year 1941,

the villagers face the war invasion by Japan. This war caused food shortage. The

problem of the food shortage was not able to solve, the villagers ask for migration to

another area in year 1951 and Sungai Buloh New Village was built up.

In early year, the main economic activities were plant vegetables and

development of the rubbers. In year 1960, the development of the livestock replaced

the development of the agriculture since there was recession of the livestock in year

1980. The development of the factories in Sungai Buloh New Village is affected by

the Subang New Village which is known as “factory village”. This caused big

changes on the social and economic of the village.

There was a serious fire occurred during 5 July 1991. It was caused by the

explosion of the fireworks manufacture factory. Around 400 of the houses were burnt,

100 people were injured and 22 unluckily person were died in this incident.

Nowadays, there are 1300 factories in this village. This new village becomes the

village with the larger number of factories in Selangor. There is 70% of the factories

are furniture factories.

The population of the village is getting increase. In year 1970, there were

3800 villagers. The villages increased to 5600 people in year 1980 and 15000 people

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in year 1995. However, the new population is reduced to be around 5000 due to the

migration of the villagers.

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ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

In early period, the main economics of the Sungai Buloh New Village were

planting vegetables and developing rubbers. Besides that, it was also famous for the

mining activities in previous time.

Nowadays, there are many factories built up in this villages and cause the

economic growth well. The 70% of the factories is furniture factories. Hence, most of

the villagers in this village work in those factories. The traffic is busy due to the

development of the factories.

Sungai Buloh New Village factories

Other than that, there is a market in the village. There are many shops and

restaurants near this market so it is very convenience for the villagers. The market can

fulfill the villagers’ dairy necessities. There are meats, vegetables, fruits and fish sell

in the market. The foods there sell are fresh with reasonable price. There are also

stalls selling clothes during weekends. The hawkers use their dairy incomes to

support their living expenses.

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Sungai Buloh New Village market

There is one shop called Sin Sang Loong which is selling Hakka buns, “tie

ban bao” in front of his shop. The business is very good. They able to earn quite a lot

since the buns can be sold up to around thousands in a day.

Sin Sang Loong

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EDUCATION

For the villagers in Sungai Buloh New Village, education is very important

for them. So, they started to build school during year 1928. The primary school at

first name Sekolah Lian Qiao but now is known as SJK(C) Kampung Baru Sungai

Buloh. The school started up with 30 students with only two classrooms. On 1945,

three more classrooms were built in order to face the problems of more and more

students were applying. The classes were divided to two sessions: morning and

afternoon session. Sekolah Lian Qiao was successfully built up a new building with

the donation from government, MCA and those kind-hearted during 1952. That was

the time the school name as SJK (C) Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh.

The extensions of the school were kept continued. On 1989, the second new

building was built with total 12 classrooms. In order to increase the space for the

students to carry out activities, a multipurpose shed was built on 1998. As coming to

20th centuries, the career opportunity in this village was increasing, more and more

villagers were staying here and the amount of students were increasing too. A new

building with four floors was built. They were planned to raise funds to build a hall

during the end of year 2008.

As for now, the school has a total of six buildings with 2.43 hectare area. The

basic facilities and equipments are keep improving. The staff rooms, library and

computer rooms are well-equiped with air-cond. The total number of classrooms is 45

with 1620 numbers of students. Meanwhile, there are 80 numbers of stuffs. The

classes still divide to two sessions. It is proud to say that SJK (C) Kampung Baru

Sungai Buloh is a grade A school. There is also kindergarden that is built opposite to

the primary school.

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Main entrance of SJK (C ) Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh

The school canteen

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One of the building blocks

Happy Kindergarden

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TOURISM VALUE

Sungai Buloh New Village is very popular with a variety of food among the

city folks especially during weekends and public holidays. Firstly, it is all about the

Hakka famous bun- “tie ban bao”. It is a soft bun with some ingredients like peanuts,

coconut or sweetened bean paste. Sin Sang Loong is famous with this Hakka fried

bun where thousands of buns are sold per day. Although is just a small stall, the buns

have a long history where now are the 5th generation who do the buns. Last time they

used oils to fry the buns but to match up with the community which is concern about

health issue; they fried the buns without oils. Surprisingly, they found the buns taste

better.

The delicious hakka fried buns

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Frying “tie ban bao”

Next, continue with the Chinese New Year famous dishes- “Pun Choy” at

Restoran LYJ. “Pun Choy” is known as Big Bowl Feast where layers of various types

of food like scallops, fake shark fins, tiger prawns, roast duck, suckling pork, Chinese

mushrooms and a lot more plunked in one bowl. This dish is more common in Hong

Kong but recently gained popularity in local shores. Booking in advance at least one

day is needed since there are more than 10 types of foods that need different ways of

cooking like steam and fried. It is not like steamboat that just cook all the food in a

pot.

Jeff Lee’s Kitchen is also another famous place for food. It will be very

crowded especially on weekends and public holidays. Most of the time the waiting

line is very long and yet the crowd continues to come. Reasonable price with big

portion food and fresh ingredients are the reasons make the crowd willing to wait for

the food. The shop trademark-noodle with minced meat on top is a must try dish. The

mixed pork porridge is very delicious with all kind of pork ingredients inside.

Last is Restoran Teochew that serves with seafood like grouper fish, prawns

and cutter fish. During day time, the restaurant is serves with either seafood noodles

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or porridge and Yong Tau Fu. In the evening, charcoal steamboat with fish head and

yam soup is served. There are also other dishes to be order if you are not interested

with the steamboat.

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PROBLEMS

Due to the continuous development in Sungai Buloh New Village, more and

more lands are developed for commercial purposes. As a result, land shortage has

become one of the major problems in this area. Roads are very narrow and most of

the roads are only one way streets. This problem has also led to serious traffic

congestion especially during peak hours. Moreover, traffic lights at the junction of

Jalan Sungai Buloh and Jalan Welfare has caused inconvenience for Sungai Buloh

New Village’s residents. Cars from Sungai Buloh had to wait too long time to turn

into Jalan Welfare.

Heavy traffic in the morning, noon and evening is also caused by the market

and school located inside the village. In addition, there had been many accidents at

the junction. Another problem is the computer card in the traffic lights frequently gets

stolen. This computer card is very expensive and has to order it from Australia.

Sungai Buloh New Village has quite a lot of job opportunities due to 70% of

this village is built up with factories. However, these factories always bring accidents

to this village, such as firework explosion happened in year 1991 and take away 22

lives. Other than that, those factories bring a big impact to the villagers that. It is

about their safety. More and more foreign workers are hired to help in the factory.

They might be involved in robbery, vandalism, stolen case and many other cases.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Serious action needs to be taken to solve those problems mentioned above.

Firstly, to overcome the serious traffic jam in that area, the timing of the traffic light

had to change to accommodate the heavy traffic in the peak hour. In addition, another

solution to ease the traffic congestion is having another exit into the village and

industrial area from the main road to turn into Jalan Baru Sungai Buloh. It is because

currently, there is the only one entrance for cars coming from the Sungai Buloh. To

overcome the problem of computer card keep being stolen, the police patrol cars are

needed to reduce these incidents.

Other than that, as 70% of this village is filled up with factories, they have to

create some rules and regulations and also check their factories on schedule whether

the machine and workers are worked in a safe condition. They have to take some

precautions to reduce the accidents happened again. As for the problem of foreign

workers, the owner of the factories should limit the number of foreign workers in

their factories. At the same time, hire security guard to patrol around especially when

late in night.

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