Batak Rabit

Batak Rabit is a small town in the Hilir Perak District of Perak, Malaysia, on the Malay Peninsula near the larger town of Teluk Intan. According to the account its Wikipedia article gives, it was named for Batak mercenaries from the Batak lands of Sumatra, brought over by Raja Laut during a civil war in Selangor. Today it is described as a small fishing village whose people are mostly Malay Bataks, descended from that Sumatran homeland. The town is known as a good place for udang galah, the freshwater river prawn, and a 2016 newspaper report from the village describes residents preparing to fish for freshwater prawns in the Perak River. The article is short and gives no population, founding date or area, so this entry records only what it supports: location, the origin of the name, the Batak community and the prawn fishing.