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== Malaysia ==
[[File:Riverside kampong on road from Kuantan to Dungun August 1964.jpg|alt=Huts by a river|thumb|Riverside kampong on the road from Kuantan to Dungun in 1964]]▼
In Malaysia, a kampung is determined as a locality with 10,000 or fewer people. Since historical times, every Malay village came under the leadership of a ''penghulu'' (village chief), who has the power to hear civil matters in his village (see [[Courts of Malaysia]] for more details).▼
▲[[File:Riverside kampong on road from Kuantan to Dungun August 1964.jpg|alt=Huts by a river|thumb|Riverside kampong on the road from [[Kuantan]] to [[Dungun]] in 1964]]
A Malay village typically contains a [[mosque]] or ''surau'', [[paddy field]]s or orchards and wooden Malay houses on stilts. It is common to see a cemetery near the mosque. There is barely any proper roads, but just regular dirt roads for village people to travel between kampongs.▼
▲In Malaysia, a kampung is determined as a locality with 10,000 or fewer people. Since historical times, every Malay village came under the leadership of a ''[[penghulu]]'' (village chief), who has the power to hear civil matters in his village (see [[Courts of Malaysia]] for more details).
▲A Malay village typically contains a [[mosque]] or ''[[surau]]'', [[paddy field]]s or orchards and wooden Malay houses on stilts. It is common to see a cemetery near the mosque. There is barely any proper roads, but just regular dirt roads for village people to travel between kampongs.
The British initiated the ''Kampong Baru'' ("New Village") program as a way to settle Malays into urban life. Malaysia's long serving prime minister [[Mahathir Mohamad]] lauded urban lifestyles in his book ''The Malay Dilemma''{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}} and associated kampong village life with backward traditionalism. He also had the ''kampung sentiggan'' (squatter settlements) cleared and new buildings constructed to house them.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Loo |first=Yat Ming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXKa2cp30OsC&q=kampong+architecture |title=Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City |date=2013 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=9781409472995 }}</ref>
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