Telipok

Telipok
Telipok
Coordinates	6 ° 5 '  N , 116 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 6 ° 5 '  N , 116 ° 12'  E
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Residents	432 (2010)
Ria Park development area; in the background the old center of Telipok

Old shop house in Pekan Telipok

Telipok (also Telipuk ) is a municipality in the state of Sabah in Malaysia . Telipok belongs to the outskirts of the capital Kota Kinabalu and is assigned as a sub-district of the administration of Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (City Council Kota Kinabalu).

Demographics

The number of inhabitants of the suburb was according to the Census 2010 at 432 inhabitants, but does not reflect the real conditions. A significant number of unregistered residents are of illegal immigration from the Philippines and Indonesia. To combat illegal settlements and curb the formation of slums, the government has built several thousand cheap apartments in Telipok in recent years.

history

The place was originally populated by Kadazan and Bajau . From 1913 the North Borneo Chartered Company settled a smaller group of Lutheran Hakka Chinese from the province of Canton here at the instigation of the Basler Missionsgesellschaft . The total of about 600 people were distributed to Kudat , Menggatal , Telipok and Inanam and provided with a loan and tools. These beginnings were the basis for the still strong Chinese community of these four places.

Pre-war figures in Telipok's Chinese community included Li Thet Phui, a lieutenant in the North Borneo Volunteer Force and vice chairman of the China Relief Fund . He was one of the five men who were beheaded by Japanese officers on January 21, 1944 in Kg. Petagas. He was buried with the other victims of the massacre on the site of what is now the Petagas War Memorial .

Infrastructure

The city is connected to the center of Kota Kinabalu , 15 kilometers away, via the Jalan Tuaran and Jalan Lintas . The nearest suburbs are Menggatal , Sepanggar and Tuaran .

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.

Web links

Commons : Telipok  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Census 2010 for Sabah (PDF; 1.9 MB), ed. from the Bureau of Statistics, Malaysia
2. ↑ Borneo Today: 1000 Low cost houses built in Telipok , November 19, 2007; Accessed April 22, 2012
3. ↑ Tregonning, page 149
4. ^ Danny Wong Tze Ken: Historical Sabah: The War , page 160, Opus Publications Kota Kinabalu, 2010, ISBN 978-983-3987-37-5