UTAR NEW VILLAGE COMMUNITY PROJECT

REPORT

NAME OF NEW VILLAGE:

SUNGAI BULOH 双溪布洛

SELANGOR

Project carried out by:

Year /
Student Name ID Number Course
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.

DISCLAIMER:

Information contained in this report was compiled by the University’s students on voluntary basis.
Although every effort has been made to check the accuracy of the report, the University accepts no
responsibility whatsoever for any errors or omissions, if any, the University reserves the right to make
changes on the information at any time without prior notice.

Should there be any queries regarding contents of the report, please contact:

Department of Soft Skills Competency

Tel: 03-78582628 ext 8274, 8656, 8269 (Klang Valley Campus)
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