Kelapa Sawit

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Kelapa Sawit is a small town located along Jalan Kulai-Air Hitam, Malaysian Federal Roads System Route 1 in Kulai District, Johor, Malaysia. Kelapa Sawit means oil palm in Bahasa Malaysia. The town has a mainly Hakka community which was formed back in the 1950s when the British colonial administration moved tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese people into New Towns like Kelapa Sawit during the Malayan Emergency. Many of the older generations still keep up with tradition and communicate using the Hakka dialect.

Located next to the Sime Darby palm oil plantation, this was the origin of the town's name. It faced some problems of air pollution until the estate's oil palm mill was closed down. Villagers were mainly reliant on agriculture for a living. Before tax on pepper kicked in in the 1980s, Kelapa Sawit was the famous Pepper producing town. Farmers has since relied on other crops such as Palm Oil, Durian and other leafy vegetables mainly targeted at the Singapore market. In recent years this town has transformed itself from a sleepy town into a tourist destination with murals, creative art works and traditional hakka food as their selling point. Many tourists mainly from nearby Singapore visit Kelapa Sawit as a quick weekend getaway.