Donggongon

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Donggongon
Donggongon (Malaysia)
Donggongon
Donggongon
Coordinates 5 ° 55 '  N , 116 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 5 ° 55 '  N , 116 ° 6'  E
Basic data
Country Malaysia

State

Sabah
ISO 3166-2 MY-12
Residents 1387 (2010)

Donggongon is a small town in the Penampang District in the West Coast Division . The city is to the west of Sabah , Malaysia . It borders on Kota Kinabalu and thus has the status of a suburb.

Demographics

According to the last census, the population of Donggongon is 1,387 people, the majority of whom are Kadazan-Dusun and Chinese.

Origin of name

The name Donggongon means something like "shelter" or "resting place" in the language of the Kadazan and highlights the historical role of the place as a stopover for traders on their journey from the mountains to the coast.

Facilities

Donggongon is home to important district facilities such as the police headquarters, library and sports facilities. Donggongon holds a large tamu (market) on Thursdays and Fridays , which attracts thousands of people. The market is known for its traditional handicraft products such as bangles, head clips and gongs. The city also advertises that this is the longest shopping mall in Sabah, the Megalong Shopping Complex , which opened in 2010 .

Attractions

St. Michael Church

The Church of Saint Michael in Donggongon is the oldest church in the Penampang district. It is on a steep hill. The foundation stone for the church was laid on September 29, 1936, on the feast in honor of St. Michael . During the Second World War, only the outer walls were completed, a circumstance that likely saved the building from being bombed. The church was finally completed in 1947.

Saint Michael School

The Catholic missionaries in Penampang began teaching the indigenous population in 1888. This makes the school the second oldest in Sabah after the school of the same name in Sandakan. The first school building was built at the foot of the hill from bamboo trunks and palm wood and was named St. Michael's School . In 1924, Rev. Fr. Verhoeven had a two-storey school building built that served as a church, school, boarding school and home for the priests. This building served as a school building until 1966. Today's "old block" was built in 1958 by Rev. Fr. Michael Henselmans.

In the course of the conversion of former English -speaking mission schools into Malaysian-speaking national schools in the 1980s, the school was renamed the St. Michael School and in the 2000s it was given the current name SMK St. Michael Penampang .

Monument to Peter Mojuntin

A larger than life statue in the center of the village commemorates Peter Mojuntin , the golden son of the Kadazan . Peter Mojuntin was one of the politicians who died in the Double Six Tragedy on June 6, 1976. His name also stands for the resistance of the Christian population of Donggongon against the expulsion of Christian missionaries as part of the Islamization efforts of Tun Mustapha .

literature

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 file; 359 kB), page 369  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistics.gov.my
  2. ↑ a b c About St. Michael ; Accessed June 17, 2012
  3. ↑ Sabahtourism: St. Michael's Church Penampang ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed June 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sabahtourism.com