Kampung Pelawan

Kampung Pelawan or Kampong Pahlawan is a small village with 100 houses which is located in Perak, Malaysia. All the villagers are Chinese, and they mainly speak the 'Ho Poh' dialect.Farming, plantation and tractor(Back pusher & Backhoe) are the main jobs for Pelawanian.

The history for the word of 'Pelawan' is actually came from the Malay word 'Pahlawan', which mean hero. During the World War 2, most of the places were not well structure like, house, road. etc. Japan army and boom are everywhere, nobody can live in peace during that time.

At that time, a group of peoples had been formed to anti Japanese Army with the name of 'Hong Men' (Red door). Hong Men members had running through secret training, more and more members joined at the same time. One day, the war happened betweek Japanese army and Hong Men hero. At the end, Japanese army lose on this war and they left.

After Japanese army surrendared on year 1945, villages was formed everywhere in Malaysia. Since everyone know the Hong Men member are hero at that place, then the name'Pahlawan' has been given.