Editing Village (section)

===Malaysia and Singapore===
''Kampung'' is a term used in [[Malaysia]], (sometimes spelling ''kampong'' or ''kompong'' in the [[English language]]) for "a Malay hamlet or village in a Malay-speaking country".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/kampung |title=Merriam-Webster Online |publisher=M-w.com |date=25 April 2007 |access-date=28 March 2010}}</ref> In Malaysia, a ''kampung'' is determined as a locality with 10,000 or fewer people. Since historical times, every Malay village came under the leadership of a ''[[penghulu]]'' (village chief), who has the power to hear civil matters in his village (see [[Judiciary of Malaysia#Other courts|Courts of Malaysia]] for more details).

A Malay village typically contains a ''"masjid"'' ([[mosque]]) or ''"[[surau]]"'', [[paddy field]]s and [[Malay houses]] on [[stilt house|stilts]]. Malay and Indonesian villagers practice the culture of helping one another as a community, which is better known as "joint bearing of burdens" (''[[gotong royong]]'').<ref>Geertz, Clifford. "Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective", pp. 167–234 in Geertz ''Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology,'' NY: Basic Books. 1983.</ref> They are family-oriented (especially the concept of respecting one's family [particularly the parents and elders]), [[Etiquette in Asia#Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore|courtesy]] and practice belief in [[God]] (''"Tuhan"'') as paramount to everything else. It is common to see a cemetery near the mosque. In [[Sarawak]] and [[East Kalimantan]], some villages are called 'long', primarily inhabited by the [[Orang Ulu]].

Malaysian ''kampung'' were once aplenty in Singapore but there are almost no remaining ''kampung'' villages; the very few to have survived until today are mostly on outlying [[island]]s surrounding mainland Singapore, such as [[Pulau Ubin]]. Mainland Singapore used to have many ''kampung'' villages but modern developments and rapid urbanisation works have seen them bulldozed away; [[Kampong Lorong Buangkok]] is the last surviving village on the country's mainland.

The term "kampung", sometimes spelled "kampong", is one of many Malay words to have entered common usage in Malaysia and Singapore. Locally, the term is frequently used to refer to either one's hometown or a rural village, depending on the intended context.