Kampong Sungai Teraban
Coordinates: 4°35′N 114°10′E / 4.583°N 114.167°E Kampong Sungai Teraban is a village (kampong) in Brunei. It is located in the Belait district across the mouth of the Belait River from Kuala Belait and serves as a suburb of the latter. The current village has a population of 941.
Kampong Sungai Teraban is located on the west bank of the mouth of the Belait River at 114.18ºE longitude and 4.59ºN latitude. The village is bounded by the South China Sea to the north, the Belait River to the east, Rasau to the south with the villages of Kampong Sungai Tiga and the Malaysian border at Sungai Tujoh to the west.
Kampong Sungai Teraban is one of the kampongs in Mukim Kuala Belait. Due to its proximity to downtown Kuala Belait, which is immediately across the river from the village, it serves mainly as a residential suburb for the nearby town.
Kuala Belait was a small fishing village at the turn of the 20th century. The natives were Belait Malays who were mainly fishermen. According to local customs, there was a falling out between two groups of the inhabitants and one of those groups moved to the west bank of the mouth of the Belait River to found the current day Kampong Sungai Teraban. Kampong Sungai Teraban was initially known as Kampong Seberang, meaning in Malay "the village on the opposite bank". In the 1930s and 1940s, Chinese Hokkien immigrants from the Wee (one of whom was Wee Thian Boo, also known as Ng Tow Woo 1906-1994), Shim, Yeo, and Tan families lived in the village. Their descendants still live in the village today. Suhaimie was also considered the greatest hero of the urban legend of this village. according to the old folks believed he can killed many ghost which includes kuntilanak and pontianak. His name was well known to many villagers and considered the true Traban Hero. However, he always left th ptui tui group with the unknown reasons
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