Penapar


Penapar is a village in Tutong District, Brunei, in the mukim of Tanjong Maya. The incumbent village head is Mahmud bin Abdul Latif. Penapar has the postcode TD1741.

Name

Penapar is officially known in Malay as Kampung Penapar, which means 'Penapar Village'.

Geography

Penapar is a village, the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei. It is one of the villages in Tanjong Maya, a mukim or subdistrict of Tutong District.

Education

Penapar Primary School is a government school which provides general primary education to the resident pupils of Penapar. It also shares grounds with Penapar Religious School, also a government school but provides ugama or Islamic religious primary education which is compulsory for Muslim pupils in the country.

Infrastructure

Place of worship

Kampong Penapar Mosque is the village mosque which enables the Muslim residents for conducting Jumu'ah or Friday prayers as well as other congregational prayers and communal religious activities. The mosque was inaugurated by Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, in 1991. It can accommodate 200 worshippers.