Islamic Governance: Strategies for Relevance

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Chee Yung
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Functional Relevance ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Do So

Even though Islam is the official religion of Brunei Darussalam, more efforts are still needed to bolster functionality and relevance of Islam to the country, and implement an Islamic system of governance. This paper sets out to devise strategies in order to do so, to be implemented by three main stakeholders: Government civil service, the public and the international community. Five specific strategies are devised: formulate a single common understanding of Islamic governance; ensure commitment from top management; train and develop competence; engage the public; and engage the international community. The first three strategies relate to the Government, the fourth to the public, and the fifth to the international community. And at the core, of course, is Tauḥīd, or strong Faith, which would act as a guide to help individuals, the main agents of change, make appropriate decisions in accordance to the teachings of Islam, implement the five strategies to strengthen functional relevance of Islam in Brunei, and be able to work towards achieving the Maqāṣid of the Sharī’ah.

Bottled Water Industry in Brunei Darussalam: The Unregulated Sector?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Keyword(s):  
Bottled Water ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Available Water ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Water Companies ◽  
The Government

Brunei is seeing a proliferation of bottled companies established in the country in the last decade, driven by cheap water supplies, easily available water filtering systems and demand by the public. This research found 16 ‘companies,’ ‘producing’ and distributing over 34 brands of bottled waters in the country. Since bottled water industry is ‘popular,’ it is necessary to understand how the industry is being monitored and regulated by the government as it involved products consumed by the public. Since most of the bottled water companies use water drawn from the pipes supplied by the government, it is also important to understand how the government is protecting, monitoring and regulating this valuable resource from exploitation. This paper is a preliminary research on the bottled water industry in Brunei Darussalam.

scholarly journals Populism, Twitter, and COVID-19: Narrative, Fantasies, and Desires

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Laura Cervi ◽  
Fernando García ◽  
Carles Marín Lladó
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

During a global pandemic, the great impact of populist discourse on the construction of social reality is undeniable. This study analyzes the fantasmatic dimension of political discourse from Donald Trump’s and Jair Bolsonaro’s Twitter accounts between 1 March and 31 May. To do so, it applies a Clause-Based Semantic Text Analysis (CBSTA) methodology that categorizes speech in Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) triplets. The study findings show that in spite of the Coronavirus pandemic, the main beatific and horrific subjects remain the core populist signifiers: the people and the elite. While Bolsonaro’s narrative was predominantly beatific, centered on the government, Trump’s was mostly horrific, centered on the elite. Trump signified the pandemic as a subject and an enemy to be defeated, whereas Bolsonaro portrayed it as a circumstance. Finally, both leaders defined the people as working people, therefore their concerns about the pandemic were focused on the people’s ability to work.

Lord Dufferin and the Indian National Congress, 1885–1888

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briton Martin
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
New Class ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

In the spring of 1884 shortly before his viceroyalty came to an end, Lord Ripon wrote in an urgent manner to Lord Kimberley, then Secretary of State for India, about one of the more critical questions of policy confronting the Government of India: “You may rely upon it that there are few Indian questions of greater importance in the present day than those which relate to the mode in which we are to deal with the growing body of Natives educated by ourselves in Western learning and Western ideas.” Ripon was pointing to the existence of a new class of English-educated Indians within British-Indian society and to the failure of the Government of India to acknowledge this class and to absorb its talents and influence within the structure of British-Indian administration. That this problem begged for a realistic solution by 1884 and that it would continue to do so in the years ahead, he had no doubts whatsoever; it had been left too long to fester in a mode both damaging to the class itself and dangerous to British rule. In short, the English-educated Indian class had become a question of policy.Simply stated, as the opportunities for Western collegiate education expanded and the avenues leading towards entry into the East India Company's service became available, the doors either failed to open or were placed out of the reach of the educated Indians seeking entry. By 1850, with the new class in existence in limited numbers in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and Delhi and with additional graduates appearing annually to swell its ranks, frustrations began to emerge as the graduates found themselves unable to secure the public employment which the Charter Act of 1833 had implied was to be their just right.

Analysis of the Realization Approach to the Eco-Friendly Transportation Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 40-41 ◽  
pp. 659-668
Author(s):  
Jin Ming Yuan ◽  
Ju Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Government

The transportation is the core functional elements in the logistics activities. If not focusing on implementation of eco-friendly management in the process of logistic transportation, it is impossible to build an eco-friendly logistic system as a whole. Developed countries attach great importance to environmental issues and spare no effort in promoting the reform of logistics transportation. In order to comply with sustainable development in society and economy, China's transportation industry is urgently in need of more scientific management. Based on the relevant issues of current logistic transportation, from the perspectives of multi-subject such as the government, the enterprises and the public, this article analyzes the feasible approach to achieving the eco-friendly transportation management to ensure harmonious development of efficient transportation, social economy, environment and resources.

scholarly journals La Fiscalía española ¿Debe ser una institución independiente?

2018 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Juan Luis Gómez Colomer
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
Public Prosecution Service ◽  
The Government ◽  
Adversarial Model ◽  
Do So

El Ministerio Fiscal español tiene ante todo un problema de identidad orgánica. Se desea que sea independiente del Gobierno, pero las normas confirman una cierta dependencia. El Ministerio Fiscal debe ser dependiente del Gobierno si se consuma la reforma hacia un modelo adversarial de enjuiciamiento criminal, porque ésa es la naturaleza que mejor cuadra con dicho sistema, en donde el acusado sabe que enfrente tiene a la Administración, que, cumpliendo con su deber público, le exige con todo su poder responsabilidad por sus actos. Hasta que se produzca el cambio, es mejor dejar las cosas como están. El Ministerio Fiscal no debe instruir el proceso penal ni dirigir la investigación del crimen mientras no tengamos el antedicho sistema adversarial vigente en España. Sería constitucional si lo hiciera, pero no está probado que esté preparado para hacerlo, y probablemente, a pesar de declaraciones oficiales, no desee asumir ahora esa responsabilidad. Con las normas y la práctica actual, correría el peligro de ser visualizado en los casos más importantes como un órgano no objetivo.The Spanish Public Prosecution Service has, foremost, a problem of organic identity. It is believed that it should be independent from the Government, but the laws confirm some degree of dependence. The Public Prosecution should depend on the Government if the reform toward an adversarial model of criminal procedure is pursued, because that is the nature that best fits a system in which the defendant knows he is facing an Administration that, fulfilling its public duty, is demanding with all its powers that he takes responsibility for his actions. Until the change is produced, it is better to leave things as they are. The Public Prosecution Service should not direct the criminal investigation while the foresaid adversarial system in not in force in Spain. If it did, it would be constitutional, but it has not been demonstrated that it is ready to do so and, probably, in spite of official declarations, the Public Prosecution does not want now to assume that responsibility. With the current laws and practices, the Prosecution Service would be in danger of being taken as a non-objective organ in the most important cases.

Exploratory Study on User Satisfaction of E-HRM

2022 ◽  
pp. 243-271
Author(s):  
Fahmi Ibrahim ◽  
Hazimah Suhip ◽  
Kabiru Maitama Kura ◽  
Liana H. M. Noor
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Current Status ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The Government

With the high demands to provide service quality, growing workforce, and globalization of economy, HR has transformed into an inevitable power of technology that transforms HRM into electronic human resource management (E-HRM) systems. Brunei Darussalam without exception is also practicing E-HRM in the government sector called government employee management system (GEMS). This chapter investigates the user satisfaction of E-HRM by examining the current status of GEMS in Brunei Darussalam. The user satisfaction was studied through seven elements: the implementation of E-HRM, training, user-friendliness, infrastructure, data security, technical support, and user support. Qualitative interview and descriptive quantitative method were conducted on HR officers from the public organization. Findings revealed that the GEMS are not able to provide satisfactory system. This chapter has developed a theoretical framework as a recommendation to integrate relevant elements, together with the influence of age, gender, and years of service that impact user satisfaction.

scholarly journals Coping with COVID-19: The Resilience and Transformation of Community-Based Tourism in Brunei Darussalam

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8618
Author(s):  
Najib Noorashid ◽  
Wei Lee Chin
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Government

The COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted the travel and tourism industry, economies, livelihoods, public services, and opportunities globally. This is also observed in the small country of Brunei. As one of the few countries that have successfully mitigated COVID-19 transmissions, Brunei is slowly rebuilding its tourism industry through its community-based tourism (CBT). Following Sharma et al.’s resilience-based framework for reviving the tourism industry post‑COVID-19 established in 2021, this study incorporates responses from semi-structured interviews with 16 local CBT owners on the challenges, the management, and the CBT initiatives during the height of the pandemic until today. These initiatives include diversifying more tour packages and utilising local resources and products. Despite the lockdown imposed by the government, which suspended businesses and restricted all travelling, local CBT operations flourished, generated more income for the owners, and created job opportunities for the community. Such efforts have caused the public to appreciate local cultures, the environment, and ultimately increase CBT experiences in the country. While shedding light on Brunei’s unique management of its tourism industry during the pandemic, this paper also demonstrates theoretical and conceptual contributions to the recent literature of resilient and transformational tourism and provide suggestions on how to manage CBT operations during these challenging times.

scholarly journals Urban Legibility Condition in Nigeria: A Narration of Residents’ Experience in Ibadan Metropolitan Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4 (52)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun Ayodele Olowoporoku
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Transition Zones ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Peoples’ opinion has been an adjudged tool for proffering solution to various urban problems. By this, information is sourced to guide policy-makers and other environmentally concerned stakeholders in taking enlightened decisions about the future of cities. This study therefore examined urban legibility across different residential zones of Ibadan metropolis with a view to providing information that could enhance the livability of the city and others with similar background. A total of 327 residents were selected for the survey using systematic sampling technique. The study revealed that the most predominant urban legibility elements used in navigation in the core and transition zones were areas names while availability of nearby churches was the prominent urban legibility elements in giving/receiving directions in the suburban.             The study revealed that variation existed in the importance residents attached to the various urban legibility elements as well as the effectiveness of these elements across the various residential areas of the metropolis. Furthermore, the study established that locating places in Ibadan in terms of describing and taking description is a challenging task. It recommended that the government should work out modalities to locate all urban legibility elements, enlighten the public on the need to incorporate these elements in order to improve street coordinate system in the study area and also develop and implement existing development plan with the integration of urban legibility elements.

scholarly journals Perempuan Sebagai Agen Perubahan Sosial-Ekonomi Masyarakat Pesisir Sekitar PLTH (Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Hybrid) Pantai Baru, Kabupaten Bantul, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
Derajad S. Widhyharto
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Hybrid Power Plant ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Limitations and scarcity of natural energy resources has forced the government to develop new renewable energy, one of them by making a pilot hybrid power plant project or Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Hybrid (PLTH) in coast Pantai Baru, Pandansimo, Bantul. It is an innovative attempt at once problematic, innovative efforts appear because electricity that facilitated community and business opportunity to improve their welfare. Instead, the change still leaves the problem and contestation among stakeholders. Vulnerable groups like women are the groups that most affected by such change. They perform a dual role at the domestic level as well as the public, unfortunately these changes make them as objects rather than subjects of the new renewable energy projects. An effort to shift the women from the position of an object to be the subject of renewable energy is not easy task. In response, the methodological attempt to do is to choose action research to strengthen women as agents of change in the post-construction PLTH. The result, although not all involved, a group of coastal women can no longer be considered vulnerable, but it has become one of the new strengths of coastal communities around PLTH.

scholarly journals Legal Environment for Organic Production in the Eu and Ukraine / Pprávne Prostredie Pre Ekologickú Produkciu V Eú A Na Ukrajine

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Kateryna Zelenska
Keyword(s):  
Organic Production ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Standards ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Participation Costs ◽  
The Government ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

Abstract Agricultural exporters tend to enter into contracts containing quality or standard clauses. These provisions may refer to either international public standards or standards set by private bodies. The second are usually more dynamic and thereby may respond to the consumers’ demand more quickly. However, high participation costs may exclude a large share of producers from private standards schemes. The state may pick certain socially desirable private standards and evolve them to the public regulation, as it was the case of the rules on organic farming in the EU. The government may introduce aid to encourage all interested actors to participate in the scheme, although the policy space left for the government to do so is limited by the WTO disciplines for domestic support.

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