Penampang District

Penampang District
Coordinates	5 ° 55 '  N , 116 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 5 ° 55 '  N , 116 ° 7'  E
Location of Penampang District and City
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Residents	121,934 (2010)
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/md.ppg
politics
District Officer	William Sampil
Local government building in Penampang

The Penampang District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is in Penampang . Penampang District is part of the West Coast Division area which includes Kota Kinabalu , Ranau , Kota Belud , Tuaran , Penampang, Putatan and Papar districts .

history

The district administration ( Penampang District Council ) has existed since 1958, at that time under the name JESSELTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL (JRDC). The administrative area included Telipok Town to the settlements Likas, Taman Foh Sang and Taman Stephen and the entire area of ​​the sub-district Penampang, where the district office was also located. The first chairman of the council was the then District Officer of Jesselton, Mr. Blow DSO, and the city council included all the chiefs of the district, the leaders of the Chinese communities of Penampang, Telipok, Menggatal, Inanam and Putatan, and the plantation owners of Lok Kawi Estate and Penampang represented.

From 1966, the Local Government Ordinance 1961 was applied, according to which city councils are appointed by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing . After the renaming from Jesselton to Kota Kinabalu, the name of the Jesselton Rural District Council (JRDC) was changed accordingly to Kota Kinabalu Rural District Council (KKRDC) . Again in 1978, when the top administrative level of Kota Kinabalu, the Kota Kinabalu Town Board, became the Kota Kinabalu Municipal Council , the KKRDC became the Penampang District Council (PDC) .

Putatan used to be a city within the Penampang district. Due to the rapid development of Kota Kinabalu, more and more families settled in the urban fringes, so that in March 1997 Putatan was first given the status of a sub-district, 5th class ( daerah kecil , literally: small district, by the then Prime Minister of Sabah, Yong Teck Lee ) and was finally raised to the status of a separate district on March 1, 2007.

Demographics

According to the latest census, the district's population is 121,934, the majority of whom are Kadazan-Dusun and Chinese. The population is distributed among the larger parishes and the entire area of ​​the district as follows:

Penampang District	121,934 inhabitants
Donggongon	1387
Kasigui	1133
Kepayan	25,788
rest of the area	93,616

The Penampang district is often viewed as the stronghold of the Kadazan in Sabah and the center of their political and cultural development. The assembly hall of the Kadazan-Dusun Cultural Association (KDCA) is the scene of many traditional Kadazan festivals, including the annual Kaamatan (harvest festival) as the main cultural event.

Today Penampang is mainly used in connection with the district designation. The most important city within the district today is Donggongon, which means something like "shelter" or "resting place" in the Kadazan language and highlights the historical role of the place as a stopover for traders on their journey from the mountains to the coast. Other important towns and districts within Penampang are Kepayan and Lok Kawi.

Culture

Monsopiad skull House (Location: )

Just outside of Penampang is the Monsopiad Cultural Village . The name goes back to the warrior Monsopiad, who was known for chopping off the head of his enemies and lining up the skulls over his front door to warn his enemies. The cultural center run by the warrior's descendants makes the culture of the Kadazandusun tangible and manages the “skull house” with 42 human skulls.

administration

Penampang is administered by the Majlis Daerah Penampang (Penampang District Council) , which roughly corresponds to a district office .

See also

• Local government in Sabah

literature

• KG Tregonning: "A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881-1963)", 2nd edition, University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965, reprint 1967.
• Owen Rutter: British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Ressources and Native Tribes , Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1922.
• WH Treacher: "British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan and North Borneo" , Singapore, Government print department, 1891.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (Census 2010) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 368 kB), page 369  
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brief history of Penampang District Council 
3. ↑ Bernama: Putatan Benefits From KK's Development , edition of July 16, 2009, full text available at [1]
4. ↑ Census 2010 for Sabah ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB), ed. from the Bureau of Statistics, Malaysia