Lambak Kanan Residents Join Gravesite Cleaning Campaign
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - Some 30 residents of Kampong Kawasan 3 Lambak Kanan National Housing Scheme in Berakas supported the call for a cleaning campaign towards cultivating a community of excellence by clearing the Dato Ompong Muslim Cemetery in their area.

Equipped with grass-cutting machines, hoes, parangs and other landclearing tools, the kampong residents took part in the annual gravesite cleaning campaign that was led by the village's Ketua Kampong, Pg Hj Abu Bakar Pg Hj Hitam.

The 30 participants were members of the Village Consultative Council of Kawasan 3, Lambak Kanan National Housing Scheme.

Apart from trimming bushy and tall growths at the cemetery, participants also cleared away dry leaves and removed accumulated rubbish from the site.

Ketua Kampong Pg Hj Abu Bakar said the clearing activity is meant to facilitate cemetery visitors who would usually spend time at the gravesites of their departed ones' to offer prayers during the coming month of Ramadhan as well as during Hari Raya Aidil Fitri.

He said the campaign was also meant to cultivate a culture of excellence in the efforts to create harmony amongst the village residents.

"The cleaning campaign is meant not only to physically clean the compound of the Muslim cemetery but also to cleanse the souls of people into performing charitable work at a time when Muslims are about to commence the religious duty of fasting during Ramadhan," he said.

He also called on village residents to come forward to offer help in the next cleaning campaign.

Pg Hj Abu Bakar also encouraged his villagers to fill up the mosque during Ramadhan to obtain the full merits of worship during the holy fasting month, and advised them to spend moderately as they celebrate the upcoming Raya festivity. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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