PETALING JAYA, Feb 22 — Some of the Klang Valley’s oldest and diverse neighbourhoods are in the constituency termed as Bukit Gasing.This is essentially where Petaling Jaya, a dense satellite town to Kuala Lumpur, started and where most Malaysians of the Tun Razak generation got their start when they migrated from their kampungs to the Klang Valley.
When it comes to diversity, it is almost hardwired into Petaling Jaya’s communal soul. The vibrancy and tolerance shared by ethnicities, faiths and nationalities that call PJ home is perhaps due to the fact that each group does not make up a perceivable majority.Bukit Gasing is part of the Petaling Jaya Selatan parliamentary constituency. “PJ Old Town”, where PJ itself began in the early 1950s was set up to accommodate new Chinese villages during the Communist Insurgency, says Bukit Gasing state assemblyman Edward Lee Poh Lin. The area also had its own kampung Melayu, which is now known as Section 4.
The “section” neighbourhoods that sprung up and out from the old town are of Jalan Templer and Jalan Othman during the 60s attracted a diverse mix civil servants, armed forces personnel, industrialists and academicians.Some of the most sought after schools in Klang Valley are Bukit Gasing such as the Bukit Bintang Boy’s School, La Salle School PJ, Sri Aman and Assunta Girl’s school.The Christian missionaries who had set up those schools also established institutions such as Assunta Hospital, the Bible College of Malaysia and Marist Brother Training centre. Though it may not look upscale now compared to the swankier suburbs in Petaling Jaya Utara, Section 14 was the site of one of the nation’s earliest shopping malls, the now-demolished Jaya supermarket.
Source : http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bukit-gasing-old-and-diverse/
When it comes to diversity, it is almost hardwired into Petaling Jaya’s communal soul. The vibrancy and tolerance shared by ethnicities, faiths and nationalities that call PJ home is perhaps due to the fact that each group does not make up a perceivable majority.Bukit Gasing is part of the Petaling Jaya Selatan parliamentary constituency. “PJ Old Town”, where PJ itself began in the early 1950s was set up to accommodate new Chinese villages during the Communist Insurgency, says Bukit Gasing state assemblyman Edward Lee Poh Lin. The area also had its own kampung Melayu, which is now known as Section 4.
The “section” neighbourhoods that sprung up and out from the old town are of Jalan Templer and Jalan Othman during the 60s attracted a diverse mix civil servants, armed forces personnel, industrialists and academicians.Some of the most sought after schools in Klang Valley are Bukit Gasing such as the Bukit Bintang Boy’s School, La Salle School PJ, Sri Aman and Assunta Girl’s school.The Christian missionaries who had set up those schools also established institutions such as Assunta Hospital, the Bible College of Malaysia and Marist Brother Training centre. Though it may not look upscale now compared to the swankier suburbs in Petaling Jaya Utara, Section 14 was the site of one of the nation’s earliest shopping malls, the now-demolished Jaya supermarket.
Source : http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bukit-gasing-old-and-diverse/
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