Changkat Kruing is a small village in

Manjung District The Manjung District, formerly known as Dindings, is a district in the south-western part of the state of Perak, Malaysia. It is the 26th-most populated district in Malaysia. It is administered by the Manjung Municipal Council (), formerly kn ...

Perak Perak (; Perak Malay: ''Peghok'') is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kel ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. The village is located between Ayer Tawar and Pantai Remis which is 20 km from

Ayer Tawar Ayer Tawar ( Jawi: اير تاور; ) is a town in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia. Its name came from ''Air Tawar'', which literally means "fresh water" in the Malay language. Geography Ayer Tawar is located on the eastern portion of Manjun ...

and 14 km from

Pantai Remis Pantai Remis is a coastal town in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia. It is situated in between Simpang (near Taiping) and Sitiawan. History The town was founded in the late 1940s. The name is probably derived from a type of sea shell, Remis, w ...

. Dinding River passes by the village. A planned spur of the

West Coast Expressway The West Coast Expressway (E32), abbreviated WCE, is an interstate controlled-access highway running along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The expressway is currently under construction, with several sections open for public use. Once co ...

to Changkat Keruing that would have connected the village to Siputeh was ultimately scrapped.

Economy

Most of the residents were

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Types of polyisoprene ...

tappers before the 1990s. Changkat Keruing Garden

In addition to other traditional agricultural plantations like mangoes, papayas and coconuts, locals are beginning to look towards fish and prawn farming as another source of income. However, there are several environmental concerns that flow from this practices. The locals are also beginning to invest in edible bird's nests. They do so by constructing 3 to 4 storey high buildings that resembles caves, home of the

edible-nest swiftlet The edible-nest swiftlet (''Aerodramus fuciphagus''), also known as the white-nest swiftlet, is a small bird of the swift family which is found in Southeast Asia. Its opaque and whitish bird nest is made exclusively of solidified saliva and is t ...

. These swiftlets nest in the buildings and their nests are then harvested for sale.

Environment

Changkat Kruing was severely affected by the

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the sci ...

. In December 2024, 700 mangrove trees were planted to commemorate the victims. In 2022, a reforestation project to restore the

mangrove forest Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangrove trees cannot withsta ...

planted 1,000 mangroves in Changkat Keruing Riverbank Park to remediate the effects of aquaculture and deforestation.

In the media

Changkat Keruing became the subject matter in 1995 documentary film, ''Bersepakat dan Berdikari'' (United and Self-Reliant), produced by

Filem Negara Malaysia The National Film Department of Malaysia (), abbreviated FNM, sometimes ''Jabatan Filem Negara'' (JFN) or informally the Malaysian Film Unit; was a Malaysian film production house and the government department under the Malaysian Ministry of Co ...

References

{{Perak Manjung District Villages in Perak