Lahad Datu

Federal State

Lahad Datu is a town in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Lahad Datu is located on the east coast to the north of the island of Borneo in the open to Sulawesi Darvel Bay. The city belongs to the same County District Lahad Datu. It is part of the territory Tawau Division to which the districts kunak, Lahad Datu, Semporna and Tawau and Papar belong.

History

End of the 14th century, Islam first came to Sabah. In a written on Jawi manuscript Idahan the language of the indigenous people of 1408 a man named Abdullah, national Ida'an is mentioned by the Darvel Bay who converted to Islam.

Just east of Lahad Datu, the village Tungku, which was known as a stronghold of pirates and slave traders Lanun in the 19th century.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the New Darvel Bay Tobacco Company moved in Lahad Datu. The licensed by the North Borneo Chartered Company began business in a big way with tobacco cultivation.

Demography

The town has 27,887 inhabitants Lahad Datu. As in many other cities in Sabah, there are also a considerable number of illegal immigrants from the nearby Philippines, mainly from Sulu and Mindanao, which are not registered in the population statistics. Lahad Datu is home to a significant number of Bajau and Malay, as the Cocos Islands were part of Australia from the Cocos Islands, which were settled in the 1950s here.

Economy

Lahad Datu is surrounded for long stretches of cocoa and oil palm plantations. The workup of the Palm products are located close to the harbor in the refinery, the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster ( POIC ). The refinery covers an area of 5 km ².

Education

The Borneo Child Aid Society, which organizes education and training for more than 5000 children of plantation workers, also has its headquarters in Lahad Datu. The private, nonprofit organization, known to the locals as "Humana Child Aid Society Sabah ", granted to children from other families access to free education, if parents a public school can not afford. In total, over 9,000 children are cared for in 116 schools by the organization.

Infrastructure

Lahad Datu is an important port for the export of tropical wood. The city is connected via the Lahad Datu Airport airport to the national route network.

Nature Reserves

Lahad Datu is the starting point for visits and expeditions of the Danum Valley Conservation Area, situated in the eastern of the Tabin Wildlife Reserve and the further south Madai Caves.