SUNGAI LEMBING - A Very Traditional Town In Malaysia!

Video was recorded on November 2020
Location: Sungai Lembing, Kuantan district, Pahang, Malaysia
Device: DJI Osmo Pocket

Sungai Lembing is a small town in Kuantan District, Pahang, Malaysia. It is about 42 km northwest of Kuantan. The town began in the 1900s as a tin-mining community when British-based Pahang Consolidated Company Limited (PCCL) set up the tin mining industry after mining activities had begun in 1886. Sungai Lembing had roads, electricity, bungalows, schools, office building, warehouse, shops, cinema, petrol station and a hospital.

In 1926, Sungai Lembing was affected by floods which damaged infrastructures in the town and mining activities were suspended for three months. It was later followed by the Great Depression and Japanese occupation of Malaya which greatly affected the tin mining industry in this town. Since the independence of Malaya, Sungai Lembing has started to decline as global demand for tin dropped and the price of tin worldwide fell, resulting in shutting down of the mines in 1987. By this time, many out-of-work miners and other residents had moved elsewhere, causing facilities such as shops and petrol stations to close.

After 2001, Sungai Lembing was revitalized as a heritage tourism attraction with the opening of Sungai Lembing Museum and subsequent investment from government has made this area one of the important tourist attractions in Pahang and had attracted large numbers of tourists. The great fire of 2019 has raised concern regarding the preservation of historical buildings, though reconstruction of old buildings is ongoing. As of 2014, there are around 5,000 residents who are still living in Sungai Lembing.

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