It's not about hudud, it's about the Sultan enforcing an Islamic legal system designed to keep him in power with little recourse for the citizens to affect changes. He will never relinquish control and under their system, there is no way for him to be forced to reform.

This.

and supposedly it is not a malaysian concern, but so many people go "wah, wah, my dreamland, my hero".

now let them see the real scenario of their dreamland.

ramaiiiiii

So many malaysians drooling over singapore. Why aren't u packing yr bags yet?

So brunei is officially dream/wet/fap land for msian??? Syok weh

i am disappointed with fellow malaysians bashing each other. why so much racial comments? why cant u guys just appreciate what we have now? i m sure there is SG-wannabe cainis as well. then i can see there is german-wannabe ppl as well. takkan u call them to migrate to those countries? why migrate when we still have chance to change our country to be better?

Anything related to islam will be bashed in/k.
Welcum to malaysia.

nobody want to invest in brunei since yesterday....

mariah carey pun x nak dtg...

Well, they have to decide if they want economic stagnation + deflation or inflation? If they want full control then have a full central bank like us. But a small country is not suitable to have a independent central bank. Singapore also should not have central bank but they want to have one so they have to play the appreciation ponzi game until one day sure get into a very high inflation situation because cannot appreciate the dollar any further. Small economies like HK and Macau only have currency boards.

Sooo...

How long do you reckon before Brunei runs out of oil? Because it'll be funny when that happens.

Don't need to run out for the show to happen.

It only needs to reduce drastically.

Its ok, they got hudud.

Oh yeah, forget the Sultan's little Sharia, when the economy goes down the shitter people are going to be even angier.

Interesting times.

They lower their oil export on purpose, as they know their oil reserve remains stagnant

But they are also actively increases their oil exploration effort and opening up previously unprofitable oil well

- insider info

They probably will abandon hudud and turn the country into South East Asia's Las Vegas once oil ran out.

...or it can become Somalia of SEA, if hudud persist even if there is no more oil.

This post has been edited by CyberSetan: May 2 2014, 05:08 PM

I still don't see the connection with their economic problems though. Sure, it's a way for the Sultan to stay in power but I see no cause and effect between hudud and the economy while most of the posts here are making it seem like there is a connection.

A civil war? Nah. The population is neither well-armed or politically strong enough to develop any opposition. In a way it reminds me of those brainless blobs that reelected BN after receiving measly handouts. The non-muslims are more likely to pusssy out than play Sharia house with the Sultan.

Of course, I'm not ruling out the prospect of an uprising, but Brunei is still pretty livable. It's going to take a lot of economic decline for something like that to ever happen, provided there is enough willing locals left to pull it off.

This post has been edited by Parrot: May 2 2014, 05:34 PM

Yes..go lick hudud....it's tasty....