Sungai Siput

Sungai Siput is a town, mukim in Kuala Kangsar District, Perak, Malaysia, covering 155.141 hectares, 61.5% of the aggregate territory of Kuala Kangsar. It is situated around 25 km from state capital, Ipoh and 20 km from illustrious town of Kuala Kangsar. Sungai Siput falls under the administration of the Kuala Kangsar Municipal Council. The most punctual settlement in Sungai Siput was arranged at Pelang, around 2 kilometers from the present town.

The settlement was populated by villagers of Minangkabau sources who had before settled in Sayong Kuala Kangsar Perak. The pilgrims were from the group of Malik and the child Tuyub, which family tomb is as yet noticeable from the roadside arranged in the domain before the Rimba Panjang new town. One the relatives was the late Imam Jusuh, one of the main imams of the Alghufraniah Sungai Siput Mosque and the town councilor.

Sister Enson was an outstanding conventional healer. One of the surviving kin is Associate Professor Suhaimi Bin Saidin, a speaker at Universiti Sultan Azlan Shah in Kuala Kangsar. Sungai Siput is outstanding for the occurrence that set off the beginning of the Malayan Emergency. The Malayan provincial organization announced a highly sensitive situation on 16 June 1948 after individuals from the Communist Party of Malaya slaughtered three European ranch chiefs at an estate office twenty miles east of Sungai Siput town.