Nanga Ngungun, Nanga Tada and Nanga Jagau

More than 2,000 longhouse folk under the Nanga Ngungun resettlement scheme continue to live together since their reallocation in 1972. They have been provided with a primary school and a local clinic.

Tapang Tree and Tapang Honey

Now they also have mobile phone coverage and internet access.

Many people have bought their own cars and vans. The five-kilometre Nanga Ngemah-Nanga Ngungun Road was tar sealed in early 2011.

The longhouse folks have also planted a lot of oil palms.

Nanga Ngungun has 24 longhouses with a population of about 3,000.


Ng. Jagau - this photo shows the terrain of the area,

Ng. Ngungun, Ng. Jagau and Ulu Ng. Ngemah are so remote in Sarawak that they can only be reached by longboats since April 1972, when RASCOM resettled the Ibans of Ng. Tada, Ng Ngungun and Ng. Jagau under the code name of "Operation Bebatak" (meaning to pull together"

This regrouping was done on a voluntary basis, as fear spread across the land due to threat and intimidation by communist terrorists.

The people are still waiting for a good road to reach them.