Seventeen Working Papers Discussed At Brunei History Seminar

Pehin Dato Ustaz Haji Awang Badaruddin

Bandar Seri Begawan – Representatives from Brunei, China, Malaysia and Indonesia delivered 17 working papers at the close of the three-day seminar on Brunei History last night.

Pehin Dato Ustaz Haji Awang Badaruddin, Chairman of Board of Directors of the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation, said at the closing ceremony that history remains among the important knowledge that needed to be learnt by people in the country.

“Research followed with writing and discussions are hoped to be effective not only in maintaining the importance of history as a branch of knowledge but, more importantly, because of the moral values that history teaches,” he said.

He added that historians, students and history enthusiasts, including organisations such as the Brunei History Association have the role to find, dig and research the Brunei history in particular, and other nations’ history which are related to the region in general.

At the ceremony, the resolution of the seminar was forwarded to Pehin Dato Ustaz Haji Awang Badaruddin.

The resolution, among other things, underlined that the writing of the Brunei National History should be undertaken by Bruneians on the basis of the Brunei centric perspective.

The seminar was co-organised by the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation and the Brunei History Centre. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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