KUALA PENYU

Updated on : Thursday, December 20, 2018 10:10:20 PM

KUALA PENYU
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Attraction around Kuala Penyu :
Pulau Tiga "Survivor Island"
Rumbia Information Centre
Tamu Kuala Penyu

Kuala Penyu a growing town
Thursday March 1, 2007
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...sec=southneast

Developing: Kuala Penyu town seen from the air.

KUALA PENYU: About 50 years ago, Kuala Penyu town was made up only of a row of shops built with palm trees and nipah leaves and surrounded by muddy mangrove forest.

The present Kuala Penyu district, covering a 45,326 square km and 80km of beaches, has an entire infrastructure on par or probably better than some other districts in Sabah.

Previously, Kuala Penyu only had a health clinic and the nearest hospital was in Beaufort, about 40km away. Now, it has its own RM76 million hospital,” said District Officer Hasbi Abdul Ghaffar.

The 76-bed hospital, built on a 13ha site, was opened in March last year and presently had 180 employees including two doctors, he said. Kuala Penyu district is located within the Beaufort parliamentary constituency.

It has a 22,000 population mainly of indigenious people like Dusun Tatana, Bisaya, Kadayan and Bajau and Chinese and Bruneians.

Their children go to 26 primary schools, four secondary schools, 15 Kemas kindergartens and a Mara vocational institute.

The newest primary and secondary schools in Kuala Penyu are Sekolah Kebangsaan Pekan Kuala Penyu and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pekan Kuala Penyu that were built on a 10ha site costing RM56mil. The schools have a capacity for 1,500 and 1,000 students respectively.

“For the Kuala Penyu community, facilities like schools and hospitals are very important for the development of quality human capital needed by the country,” said Hasbi.

The Fire and Rescue Department will have a new RM22mil office building in Kuala Penyu expected to be start operations by yearend. A police complex costing RM9mil is also being built.

Education: An aerial view of SMK Pekan Kuala Penyu
(with red roofs) built on 10ha at a cost of RM56mil.

A RM2mil jetty for vehicles has been completed for people who use ferries to travel between Labuan and Menumbok which is also an entry point from Brunei.

Kuala Penyu community leader Drs Monih Epin said all the facilities enjoyed by the people showed that the Barisan Nasional (BN) government cared about their needs.

Though the elected representative is an independent, the BN did not neglect the constituency and allocated development funds for the well being of constituents.

However, he said, the delivery system would be more effective if the constituency was represented by someone from BN.

Fast travel: The ferry is the main means of transport to Kuala Penyu town.

Sabah Special Affairs Department (Jasa) director Datuk Dr Yassin Amit said that Kuala Penyu, which hosted the Information Ministry’s Meet the Customers Day on Tuesday, could promote the district as a tourist destination.

Besides nearby Pulau Tiga which is well known for its mud volcano and was a shooting location for the popular American TV reality programme “Survivor”, Kuala Penyu has other interesting sites like Tasik Sitompok that can be developed as a tourist destination, he said.

“The beaches are beautiful and clean while Tasik Sitompok is suitable for visitors who love mangrove swamp forests,” Hasbi said.

Those interested in rumbia (sago palm) should go to Kuala Penyu because there is a Rumbia Information Centre the Rumbia Fiesta is held annually here in July, he said.

“I hope the private sector will invest in the district, especially the hotel industry as such facilities are needed,” he said. — Bernama
Water shortage in Kuala Penyu to end
Posted on April 28, 2011, Thursday
http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=126727

THE completion of laying 22 kilometres of transmission piping between Limbawang and the pumping station at Kayul in Kuala Penyu is expected to end the water shortage in the district and surrounding areas.

Deputy Chief Minister cum Infrastructure Development Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan however said they are resubmitting an application to the federal government for the project to be included under the second Rolling Plan of the Tenth Malaysia Plan.

“If everything goes according to plan, the construction will begin next year. When completed, the production capacity will increase the current 7.5 million litres per day (lpd) to 13 million (lpd),” he said in reply to a question by Kuala Penyu assemblyman John Teo Mau Sing.

Pairin said the government is aware of the water shortage in Kuala Penyu and Menumbok and is taking concrete steps to overcome the problem.

He also told the State Assembly that the upgrading of a road estimated at RM69 million from Kampung Tarawas to Kampung Timbua is also being considered to be listed under the second Rolling Plan.

Pairin was responding to Kundasang assemblyman Dr Joachim Gunsalam’s question on the status of the 22.9km road.

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