Sungai Buloh is a town in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. It is a 15-minute drive from Sungai Buloh to Kuala Lumpur, the national capital. The name itself literally means "bamboo river" in the Malay language.
It is also home to many prestigious housing areas, such as Bukit Rahman Putra, Sunway Rahman Putra, Sierramas and Valencia. Many people have the misconception that Sungai Buloh is the home of poor people and also its negative association with the leper center and national prison.
There are currently 4 major high schools in Sungai Buloh - the elite Sekolah Sri Bestari, SMK Bandar Baru Sungai Buloh, SMK Bukit Gading and SMK Bukit Rahman Putra. Sungai Buloh also houses an international school, elc International School in Sierramas and there is a KTM Komuter station in the middle of Sungai Buloh that connects to the Rawang - Seremban line.
Seventy-eight years ago, in an isolated valley of Bukit Lagong, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, a group of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Eurasians set up a contained community in the wake of the 1926 Leper Enactment Act, which required the segregation and treatment of those with the disease.
From the time it was built in 1930, Sungai Buloh was one of the biggest leprosy settlements in the-then British Empire, and the second biggest in the world. It was equipped with advanced facilities and planned following the principals of a garden city. It was a pioneer project based on the "enlightened policy" of segregating leprosy patients in a self-supporting community.
Over the years, the settlement also became a research centre for leprosy. Now Sungai Buloh is better known for flowers and plants rather than with leprosy, as commercial nurseries thrive there.
Sungai Buloh merupakan salah satu mukim di antara sempadan Petaling dan Gombak, namun ia terletak di bawah pentadbiran Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA)
dulu bila sebut Sg Buloh, yang orang ingat hanyalah hospital kusta dan sekarang bila sebut Sg. Buloh, yang orang ingat hanyalah Penjara Sg Buloh (itupun kerana Datuk Seri Anwar kena tahan dekat situ), akak-akak kat rumah pula bila sebut Sg. Buloh, depa akan terbayang kedai jual pokok-pokok bunga (sini banyak nursery)
namun bila hartanah Damansara meletup (seperti Kota Damansara dan Mutiara Damansara), Sg Buloh pun mula mendapat ‘limpahan’ kemakmurannya bila banyak developer terkenal seperti MK Land dan Talam mula mendirikan pelbagai projek komersil dan perumahan di situ dan kawasan pinggirnya (termasuklah rumah aku hehehe)
walaupun kediaman aku bukanlah betul-betul di Sg Buloh, namun Sg Buloh ngan kawasan rumah aku ni leh diibaratkan macam adik beradiklah, tak jauh pun
lebih menarik, Sg Buloh juga boleh dikatakan agak hampir dengan pusat bandar , kalau malam-malam time kenderaan tak banyak di jalan raya, 15 minit pun dah boleh sampai Kuala Lumpur
Sg Buloh juga cukup strategik kerana ia dihubungkan dengan lebuh raya dan jalan persekutuan seperti Lebuh Raya NKVE, Lebuh Raya LDP serta MRR2
pengangkutan awam seperti bas berlambak-lambak termasuk perkhidmatan tren komuter
basically dari Sungai Buloh nak pergi One Utama/IKEA (10 minit), Shah Alam (25 minit) dan pusat bandar KL (20 minit)
so bila Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hari ini mengumumkan yang Sungai Buloh dipilih menjadi hab baru Lembah Kelang, aku cukup teruja
difahamkan kerajaan dan Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP) akan membentuk satu kerjasama bagi membangunkan 3,000 ekar tanah di sini
pun begitu, aku agak risau bila mengenangkan kesan daripada pembangunan mega di sini, kesesakan, kepadatan dan pelbagai ‘ke’ lagi
nak buat macam mana, bila sebut pembangunan, mahu tak mahu inilah harga yang terpaksa dibayar, adoyyyyyyyyy
