Sungai Pelek
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Sungai Pelek is a new chinese village in the district of Sepang in Selangor, Malaysia. This town is about 20 minutes from the Formula One circuit, Sepang and about 25 minutes from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. This town is near Bagan Lalang beach and Golden Coast Sepang. Port Dickson is about 30 minutes south of the town by road. It has numerous mangrove forests and the local clay supports a thriving brick-making industry.
Local legend has it that Sungai Pelek got its name from the temporary river formed by the overflow of the Sungai Sepang and Sungai Sepang Kecil during high tide. In the local Malay dialect, "sungai" meant "river, and "pelek" meant "strange" or "unusual".
This "strange/unusual" river lasted only for as long as the high tide, as most of the water would have drained out to sea by low tide.
Major residents in the village are ethnic Chinese. There are Malays and Indians (mostly estate labourers) too in this small town. It has numerous mangrove forests and the local clay supports a thriving brick-making industry.
Sungai Pelek has several schools which serve the local community. These schools provide educational instruction in Chinese, Indian, Malay and English. The educational level of these schools range from primary education to secondary education.
Besides its thriving brick-making and clay products industry, Sungai Pelek has numerous small plantations of rubber trees, coffee and palm oil.
The main religious groups in Sungai Pelek are split between Buddhists, Hindus, Methodist Christians and Muslims. There are also a small number of Catholic Christians, Taoists and Sikhs.
Places of worship in Sungai Pelek consist of a small Methodist church preaching in Chinese, a small mosque for the local Muslims and several small Buddhists and Taoist temples. The Indian temple is located approximately 3 kilometres outside of Sungai Pelek and was probably constructed there to be closer to the larger Indian population at the Teluk Merbau palm oil estate.
