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Welcome to the website for the Sibu Rural District Council. Although the district is people driven, there are many other topics that Council deals with. Please note that this website is first and foremost a Council website, with an aim to provide its residents and ratepayers a range of information on the diverse matters that fall under Council's banner.
More information can be found by visiting this site: http://www.srdc.gov.my/
Area of Jurisdiction
The whole area of Sibu Rural District Council lies within the Sibu District Administrative, Division. It measures approximately 5,869.35 sq. kilometers with the recent inclusion of Selangau District into SRDC jurisdiction in 2002. [ + Full]
Geographical Information
Generally, the natural landscape of SRDC area is made up of a gentle hill slope to the north-west, a vegetation much of the secondary forest. Shifting cultivations (planting of hill padi ) are still being practised at only a moderate scale beside the planting of oil palm, pepper and local fruit trees on part of the low-projecting plateau and flat-plain. [ + Full]
Population
Based on the 2000 census, the total number of resident residing in Sibu Rural District Council area was recorded approximately at 60,000. [ + Full]
Experimental Election
Sibu Rural District Council was constituted and vested with an executive powers on 1.1.1952, after initially undergoing an experimental stage known as the Dayak Local Authority from 1.1.1950 to 31.12.1951. [ + Full]
Early Establishment
Another election of Councillors was held in 1963, shortly before the historic formation of the Malaysian Federation. This time, the election was an open affair. Cr. Wong Kwong Yu, A.B.S., B.B.S., took over the chairmanship in July 1963. [ + Full]
Integration of Management
Realising the needs and necessities to integrate and restructure the top-level management of some major town Councils in Sarawak, the then so-called State BN3 government began to adopt a new approach, to appoint a local prominent political figure instead of the serving District Officer to be installed as Chairman.
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