The Seking islanders acknowledged themselves as Orang Selat, and considered their homeland to be in various parts of Southern Singapore, such as Pasir Panjang, Kampong Bahru, Telok Saga and Pulau Brani. Significantly, some said that their ancestors had moved to the Southern Islands because of their dislike of the British.
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To casual eyes, Pulau Seking appeared to consist of a single continuous village, but it actually contained four named areas of habitiation, which reflected differences between kelompok ideantifiable by kinship alignment and micro-ethnicity.
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Tanjung Berkat (blessed headland), to the east of Kampung Tengah, was inhabited mainly by Orang Selat who moved in from Pulau Bukom when the Shell refinery was opened there in 1961. Like the people of Kampung Tengah, these islanders were mostly engaged in wage labour on Pulau Bukom or the mainland. This was the first section to be vacated in the late 1980's as some people moved away from the island. (p. 198)Β
Wee, V., & Benjamin, G. (2001). Pulau Seking: the final link to pre-Raffles Singapore.
