Nabawan District

Nabawan District
Nabawan District
Coordinates	5 ° 5 '  N , 116 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 5 ° 5 '  N , 116 ° 27'  E
Location of Nabawan District and City
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
surface	6089 km²
Residents	31,807 (2010)
density	5.2  Ew. / km²
founding	1974
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/pd.nbw
politics
District Officer	Bubudan OT Majalu

The nabawan District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is the city of Nabawan . The district is part of the Interior Division area which includes the districts of Beaufort , Keningau , Kuala Penyu , Nabawan, Sipitang , Tambunan and Tenom . In the south the district borders on Kalimantan Indonesia .

Demographics

According to the last census in 2010, the population of the Nabawan District is 31,807 and consists almost exclusively of Murut , the largest ethnic group. The population is distributed among the larger parishes and the entire area of ​​the district as follows:

Nabawan District	31,807 inhabitants
Nabawan	576
Pensiangan	307
Sepulot	318
rest of the area	30,606

Administrative headquarters

The administrative seat of the district is the city of Nabawan.

history

The Nabawan District was previously known as the Pensiangan District . In 2004 the name was changed to Nabawan District .

The history of the district administration in Nabawan began in 1957. In that year the district got its own district office in Pensinagan, about 114 km south of Nabawan. As there were no roads in the area, the only means of getting around was by boat with an outboard motor, on horseback, or on foot. The district officers who were stationed in Pensiangan were therefore equipped with horses to be able to carry out their duties. A currentless cable laid along the footpath from Keningau to Pensiangan served as a telephone connection to the outside world, to which telephones could be connected if necessary. IC Peck was appointed the first district officer in early 1957.

In the spring of 1974 the administration of the Nabawan District Office was transferred to the newly established Nabawan. With the Nabawan Scheme - a resettlement plan of the United Sabah National Organization (USNO) - an attempt was made to lure settlers into the lonely area. The plan was not particularly successful. On the one hand it was badly organized, on the other hand it did not take into account the traditionally close family ties and after a while many settlers returned to the region around Pensiangan. The remaining settlers faced the challenge of developing the area from scratch.

Despite the failures, a new, one-story administration building was erected in Nabawan in 1998/99 and staffed by a middle-class administrative officer. In purely formal terms, Nabawan is thus on a par with the other districts in Sabah.

List of District Officers in Nabawan

Surname	In office from	In office until
IC Peck	1957	1958
JWE Grayburn	1958	1959
DW Eisenhauer	1959	1960
GS Sundang	1960	1961
AT Baillie	1961	1962
Awang Mohd. Thauffeck	1962	1963
Pengiran Ahmad Raffae	1963	1964
Suarah Jabar	1964	1965
Chin Su Pin	1965	1966
Fred Solibun	1966	1967
Martin Liaw Kon Soong	1967	1967
Stephen Koroh	1967	1968
John Chin	1968	1971
Benjamin Mohammad	1971	1972
Aziz Rashid Zainuddin (Station)	04/18/1973	1974
Aziz Rashid Zainuddin (Nabawan)	11/01/1974	05/30/1976
Jalumin Jahali	06/01/1976	08/31/1977
Railey Jeffery	09/02/1977	January 31, 1979
Paul Fadzillah Linggi	02/01/1979	09/27/1980
Bobbey A. Suan	29.09.1980	December 31, 1982
Nordin Siman	03/02/1983	07/07/1983
Haji Nordin Zainal	07/07/1983	07/01/1985
Andrew Nusius	03/10/1986	December 28, 1990
Louis Rampas	01/28/1991	03/30/1996
Siriman MF Basir	03/30/1996	07/01/2005
Mohd Farid Mohd Yamin	07/01/2005	06/01/2007
Bubudan OT Majalu	06/11/2007	officiating

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. ↑ Census 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 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; 7.1 MB), page 71  
2. ↑ 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  
3. ^ Pensiangan District Council Instrument 1964, January 14, 1964
4. ↑ ^{a b} Brief History of Nabawan District Office ( Memento of the original from October 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. , Accessed February 2, 2012  
5. ↑ http://www.sabah.com.my/butitin/history.html