Bagan Serai
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Bagan Serai is a small town in Perak
, Malaysia. It is located in Kerian
district and is an important collecting and processing location for the paddy plantation of the Kerian scheme. Bagan Serai is also the name of the parliamentary constituency in which the town is located.
The word “Bagan” in Malay means a jetty or a place of landing for some business activities. While the word “Serai” means Cymbopogon
a herb often used in Malay food. (“Serai” used to be mass produced in this small town.) When linking the two words, it becomes “Bagan Serai”.
Through the hearsay from old generations, Bagan Serai used to be a very busy pier for trading activities, because of the rivers that flows through this small town straight to the sea, making it a strategic location for trading activities and suitable landing spot for goods.
A slightly different version as to how Bagan Serai got its name can be found at the website "Glimpses".
Demographics and Economic Activities
Most of Malay residence here were migrated from Banjarmasin, Indonesia. Which in local dialects called Banjar language. They have distinguished dialect which most of it non intelligible to native Malay language speakers. But as all Malaysians, they do speak standard Malay language. Shops are mostly owned by Chinese-Malaysian ancestry. Significant amount of Indian-Malaysian work as rubber tappers in rubber estate.
Banjar-Malay-Malaysians and "Malay" descendents work in agricultural activity which in Bagan Serai predominantly paddy fields and palm oil.
Bagan Serai is one of 8 sub-districts of Kerian district which included Parit Buntar, Bagan Tiang, Tanjung Piandang, Kuala Kurau, Beriah, Bagan Serai, Gunong Semanggol and Selinsing. It is under the jurisdiction and administration of Majlis Daerah Kerian (Kerian District Committee).
Transportation
Public transport is managed by a private company called The Red Omnibus. The town has a main bus stand which located at the New Town of Bagan Serai and close to Main Market of Bagan Serai. The bus stand also provides taxi services. Bus to the center of town from peripheral areas runs daily every 30 minutes. Express buses goes from Bagan Serai to various towns and cities including Kuala Lumpur, Georgetown, Kulim, Alor Setar, and Ipoh.
Temperatures and Climate
Yearly, Bagan Serai has relatively colder climate than other part of Malaysia due to its location near the Straits of Malacca and northern away form the equator. Taiping is located relatively near and southern to Bagan Serai, which is most wet place (frequent rains) in Malaysia.
No specific temperature data and precipitation are aired daily in television for Bagan Serai. Thus, usually town people use Ipoh data for Bagan Serai. However, they are not usually true as they may be occasionally correlated with Georgetown, Penang data.
Perak
Perak , one of the 13 states of Malaysia, is the second largest state in the Peninsular Malaysia bordering Kedah and Yala Province of Thailand to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, Selangor the Strait of Malacca to the south and west.Perak means silver in Malay...
, Malaysia. It is located in Kerian
Kerian
Kerian is an administrative district in Perak, Malaysia. It is one of the main rice-growing area in the state. Its local government is Majlis Daerah Kerian or Kerian District Council which is based at Parit Buntar. From the 2010 Population and Housing Census, Kerian has a population of 173,625.The...
district and is an important collecting and processing location for the paddy plantation of the Kerian scheme. Bagan Serai is also the name of the parliamentary constituency in which the town is located.
The word “Bagan” in Malay means a jetty or a place of landing for some business activities. While the word “Serai” means Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon is a genus of about 55 species of grasses, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and Oceania. It is a tall perennial grass...
a herb often used in Malay food. (“Serai” used to be mass produced in this small town.) When linking the two words, it becomes “Bagan Serai”.
Through the hearsay from old generations, Bagan Serai used to be a very busy pier for trading activities, because of the rivers that flows through this small town straight to the sea, making it a strategic location for trading activities and suitable landing spot for goods.
A slightly different version as to how Bagan Serai got its name can be found at the website "Glimpses".
Demographics and Economic Activities
Most of Malay residence here were migrated from Banjarmasin, Indonesia. Which in local dialects called Banjar language. They have distinguished dialect which most of it non intelligible to native Malay language speakers. But as all Malaysians, they do speak standard Malay language. Shops are mostly owned by Chinese-Malaysian ancestry. Significant amount of Indian-Malaysian work as rubber tappers in rubber estate.
Banjar-Malay-Malaysians and "Malay" descendents work in agricultural activity which in Bagan Serai predominantly paddy fields and palm oil.
Bagan Serai is one of 8 sub-districts of Kerian district which included Parit Buntar, Bagan Tiang, Tanjung Piandang, Kuala Kurau, Beriah, Bagan Serai, Gunong Semanggol and Selinsing. It is under the jurisdiction and administration of Majlis Daerah Kerian (Kerian District Committee).
Transportation
Public transport is managed by a private company called The Red Omnibus. The town has a main bus stand which located at the New Town of Bagan Serai and close to Main Market of Bagan Serai. The bus stand also provides taxi services. Bus to the center of town from peripheral areas runs daily every 30 minutes. Express buses goes from Bagan Serai to various towns and cities including Kuala Lumpur, Georgetown, Kulim, Alor Setar, and Ipoh.
Temperatures and Climate
Yearly, Bagan Serai has relatively colder climate than other part of Malaysia due to its location near the Straits of Malacca and northern away form the equator. Taiping is located relatively near and southern to Bagan Serai, which is most wet place (frequent rains) in Malaysia.
No specific temperature data and precipitation are aired daily in television for Bagan Serai. Thus, usually town people use Ipoh data for Bagan Serai. However, they are not usually true as they may be occasionally correlated with Georgetown, Penang data.