In response to Laselo's comment pertaining to "Enacting Language Law on Business is Not Good". I reckon the debate and comments on this subject matter of Language Enactment Law is an issue of "JAWI" vs. "RUMI". I support the idea that government has a role to play with respects to commissioning, regulating and enforcing business laws in a certain inevitable aspects.

Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire does not always turn out to be fine or beneficial to a nation-state's socio-economic development and well-being. My friend, if it is not the government's intervention with subsidizing the price of rice, sugar and fuel (just to name a few); I envision everyone in Brunei has to fork out more to sustain their consumption pattern. Since majority of the residents in Brunei can read and understand Rumi in our Bahasa Rasmi, why not put in effort to enhance the usage and acceptance of our National Language.

I suspect that you are not a Bruneian. If you are one, we may empathize with our pride, identity and character with our Bahasa Rasmi. Do you know that majority of Canadians are not literate in French (Canada is a bilingual nation - English & French)? But why all the information, manual, government literature is in both English and French. Doesn't that make no sense economically, does it? Are you aware that a handful of Canadian (especially the Francophone from Quebec) barely understand or/and use English? Why? You go figure out the reason.

Local businesses do not give away much bonus; they prefer to keep the surplus in their own pockets. A matter of fact, we need the government to play stronger role to monitor

(a) the industrial and occupation development;
(b)employer-employee relations; and
(c) business ethics and equity issues. Whether you like it or not, government does have the need to supplement by-laws as our nation-state progresses along the way.

I tell you Negara Brunei Darussalam won't be the least developed nation-state amongst ASEAN. We have better distribution of wealth, better security, better justice, and better social mobility. We need to review our "closed door policy" and relax some of our laws.

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