| The revived Legislative Council is having its inaugural
sessions today. In conjunction with this landmark event the
Weekend Borneo Bulletin has invited Associate Professor Dr
Haji B.A. Hussainmiya (photo) of UBD to write a new series
on the workings of the Brunei State Council (1907-59) from
which the present Legislative Council has evolved.
His books including "Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III and
Britain; The Making of Brunei Darussalam", Oxford University
Press, 1995, and "The Brunei Constitution: An Inside
History, Brunei Press, 2000" have become standard reference
works for those who want to study about constitutional
developments in the pre- Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah
period.
Recently in 2002 "The Journal of South East Asian
Studies" published by the National University of Singapore
carried Dr Hussainmiya's article titled "Manufacturing
Consensus: Role of the Brunei State Council (1907-59) which
is the first detailed study of the Council. The author is
one of the few scholars who have had access to the Council
Minutes preserved in the Brunei National Archives, and in
this series he is going to share with the Borneo Bulletin
readers his findings on the fascinating proceedings of the
Council. |
