Timber is one of the construction materials to construct sustainable construction. Mengkulang species are one of the timber that widely used nowadays. It is suitable for flooring, interior finishing, furniture and paneling. In order to improve the ability of timber as structural components, its value is added through innovation in timber engineering such as glulam. Dowel-bearing strength is the maximum load capacity that the specimen or structural component can cater. In this study, the load bearing test was conducted using universal testing machine (UTM). The physical properties such as moisture content, density and specific gravity also had been determined. The dowel-bearing strength of 16 mm bolt diameter for Fe 5% and Fe max is 0.018 and 0.02 kN/mm 2 , respectively. For 20 mm bolt diameter, average value of Fe 5% and Fe max are 0.015 and 0.018 kN/mm 2 , respectively. From the result, it can be concluded that the smaller the bolt diameter, the higher the dowel-bearing strength. The record of bearing strength for Mengkulang species is not yet available. Therefore, this study can help in order to enhance the understanding of load bearing strength of this species.