Merimbun Heritage Park of Brunei (In Bahasa Melayu)
-- Merimbun Heritage Park of Brunei (In Bahasa Melayu). Episode: 1636, Air Date: 8 March 2011.
Today's A Journey through Aesthetic Realms will be presented in Bahasa Melayu, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Peace be upon you. Welcome to Tasek Merimbun Heritage Park.
Halo, eco-conscious viewers, and welcome to A Journey through Aesthetic Realms on Supreme Master Television. On today's episode, we are delighted to visit the gorgeous land of Brunei Darussalam.
Nestled on the northeastern shore of Borneo Island in Southeast Asia, it is home to some of the best preserved rainforests in all of Borneo. Her thriving ecosystems support not only a diverse array of wildlife but also flourishing indigenous human settlements with unique cultural traditions.
One of Brunei Darussalam's national prides, the Merimbun Heritage Park, also known as Tasek Merimbun, will be the focus of our program today.
My name is Untong bin Madah. I am the former village chief. I've retired for three years. I've worked and lived here in Tasek Merimbun with my family. We've been here since the days of our ancestors. Tasek Merimbun is situated deep in a remote area, far away from town and other known places. There's a lake here; it's called the Merimbun Lake.
It is the largest lake in Brunei. We've seen the original scenic views, the more we see the more beautiful it is. The villagers like it.
A pair of twin freshwater lakes connected by a narrow channel form the central feature of the Tasek Merimbun. The surrounding wetland habitat is teeming with precious flora and fauna. Archeologically significant remnants of the Dusun ethnic group, still living in the area, have been found on some of the lakes' islands that date back 500 years ago and longer.
In order to protect the natural and cultural heritages of this area, a national reserve was established here in 1984 and declared as one of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Heritage Parks. It is currently managed by the Brunei Museums Department of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.
Our guide and officer of the Tasek Merimbun Museum, Mr. Shahdan, took us for a fascinating boat tour of the lakes and showed us the surrounding area.
We're now in the area close to the lake and we shall use the boat to go around in the Merimbun Lake. We're now in the Merimbun Lake area. There are two lakes here; the first one is about 100 hectares and the one over there has an area of 120 hectares. The water in this lake is naturally black because of the plants or withered leaves that fall into the lake.
We're now crossing the river called Sungai Piasau. We'll get to the second lake which has an area of 100 hectares. On our right side we have an island called Pulau Batu. And here on this side, we call this island Pulau Merah. We are now in the nature trail area; it is a trail system with a network of jungle paths. There are two Merimbun botanical trails. The second one is Banunih Trail.
Among the park's research and tourist facilities, there is a central hilltop exhibition hall with a panoramic view of the lakes and the surrounding area.
We have this exhibition hall to give introductions. It displays the important researches in Merimbun Heritage Park. We have the Natural History section, Archeology and Ethnography sections. All three sections are closely related to each other in projecting the uniqueness of Merimbun Heritage Park.
The Natural History section is in the form of pictures from the wild. The Archeology section, this field emphasizes the historical background of the early settlements in the interior sites of Tutong District, mainly Pulau Jelundong and Pulau Labu-Labu. The Ethnography section, this field emphasizes on cultural and economic efforts of the villagers of Tasek Merimbun, whose livelihood traditionally depends on the food collected from the jungle.
With a maximum depth of 4 meters, the seasonally flooded Merimbun lakes and their surrounding marsh forests form the largest peat-swamp wildlife sanctuary in northern Borneo. In a survey of 4 of the 7,800 hectares of the park, no less than 800 varieties of plants were identified.
Although much of the park is yet to be fully studied, a rich diversity of fauna has already been reported, including 50 kinds of freshwater fish, 68 types of mammals, 148 varieties of birds, and hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians and insects.
This exhibition also shows a type of red ape found in Tasek Merimbun, called Meragang. These Meragangs eat only young shoots, leaves and certain fruit. We display pictures of these Meragangs. They are so attractive in Tasek Merimbun, especially when you notice them in the morning, about 5:30 am; they are calling their group, making th
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