Pulau Meranti is a village in

Sepang District The Sepang District is a district located in the southern part of the state of Selangor in Malaysia. Sepang District covers an area of around 600 square kilometers, and had an estimated population of 338,600 in 2023. The district of Sepang is ...

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History

It has an area estimated at more than 100 hectares, explored and founded by a Dato' Gede Biro Bin Jenangkin ('Gede' meaning big in Javanese and 'Biro', an origin from

Palembang Palembang (, Palembang: ''Pelémbang'', Mandarin: 巨港 (Jùgǎng), Hokkien: 舊港 (Kū-káng), Jawi: ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River in the ea ...

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) around the 1890s. Until today, the fourth and fifth generation descendants of Dato' Gede Biro still reside in this village and the original residents of this village use Palembang dialect as a spoken dialect of Malay in daily conversations.

Features

Pulau Meranti village is divided into five areas: # Kampung Masjid (name given because it has the only mosque located in the village) # Kampung Pulau Meranti Dalam (part of it is now a new housing development known as ''Taman Putra Perdana'') # Pulau Ibol (lost due to development) # Kampung Batu Sembilan # Kampung Sg Rasau # Pulau serbok

Notable events

On 8 March 2014, the

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned de ...

disappeared with 239 people on board, following its last contact with air traffic control 41 minutes after take-off. On 9 March 2014, the Government of Malaysia had established an Operations Coordination Centre at the National Disaster Command Centre (NDCC) in Pulau Meranti, Cyberjaya to monitor the development of the situation.The Star
Missing MAS flight: Malaysia grateful for assistance in search and rescue operations, says Anifah
9 March 2014

Transportation

Car

The

SKVE The South Klang Valley Expressway, or SKVE (Malay Language, Malay: ''Lebuhraya Lembah Klang Selatan''), is an expressway in the southern part of Klang Valley, Malaysia's most densely populated region. This dual-carriageway provides links to the b ...

, MEX and LDP highways run around the boundaries of this village, as well as Jalan Puchong.

Public transportation

The nearest railway/metro station is the Putrajaya/Cyberjaya ERL station on the

KLIA Transit The ERL KLIA Transit is a commuter rail service which serves as an airport rail link to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia. It runs from KL Sentral, the main railway station of Kuala Lumpur to KLIA's KLIA T1 ERL station ...

system. A station on the MRT Putrajaya Line Line will be built near this village.

Causeway Link Handal Indah Sendirian Berhad (), trading as Causeway Link, is a private bus company with operations in Malaysia and Singapore. The company is based in Johor Bahru, and is the largest bus operator in Johor. It operates cross-border public buse ...

bus 608 goes towards IOI Puchong Jaya LRT station via Puchong Utama bus hub, Batu 14 Puchong and

Bandar Puteri Puchong Bandar Puteri Puchong is a modern residential and commercial township in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. Development started by the IOI Group in 1999, since then, continuous developments and infrastructure upgrades has been ongoing throughout the ye ...

. The Puchong Utama bus hub connects with RapidKL bus 600, towards Pasar Seni,

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References

Villages in Selangor Sepang District {{Selangor-geo-stub