Balai Ringin

Balai Ringin is a town in Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It is at once a town, a state constituency and an autonomous sub-district of Serian Division, and it lies about half an hour by road from Serian town along the Pan Borneo Highway. The town sits in the southeast corner of Serian Division, right beside the border with Indonesia, and is roughly 75 kilometres southeast of Kuching, the state capital. The area is mostly inhabited by Iban people, with a few Malay villages. Balai Ringin used to belong to Simunjan District in the Samarahan Division; in 2021 it was separated from that district, transferred to Serian Division and given autonomy, which made it the second expansion of Serian Division after Siburan District was taken from Kuching Division in 2015. It forms part of the area covered by the Greater Kuching Coordinated Development Agency, together with Kuching, Samarahan, Serian and Bau, and its parliamentary seat is shared as Serian and Sri Aman.