As word spread about memberakas kayu (to gather firewood), Berakas was established as the location where people go.

Smaller villages including Baduk Sijanum, Bukit Galang-Galang, Sibukak, Pulaie, and a few more eventually joined the Melabau landscape, albeit many of them are now extinct.

The Melabau people were able to establish a strong, cohesive society because of this large region.

[5] In the late 1940s, Mukim Berakas was primarily made up of forest land.

In the 1950s, when they initially started settling in this region, lands in the Anggerek Desa and Burong Pingai were allotted under the first Kampong Ayer resettlement scheme.