Brunei and Malaysia

Brunei and Malaysia:
Why Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Refused to Join the Federation

Author	Isa Bin Ibrahim
Subject	Decolonization Brunei
Genre	History
Publisher	I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Published in English	30 June 2013
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	288
ISBN	978-1-78076-436-8

Brunei and Malaysia: Why Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Refused to Join the Federation is a 2013 book written by Isa Bin Ibrahim, a prominent member of the delegation of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin of Brunei with Neil Lawson QC, a London lawyer acting as the constitutional adviser on the formation of Malaysia. The book offers an inside perspective on Brunei's determination to retain its territory as an oil-rich self-governing state, contrasted with the British desire that Brunei should become part of the new federation to help counter the regional influence of China.

Description

Tunku Abdul Rahman and most of his senior cabinet ministers, including Tun Abdul Razak, Razali Ismail and Tan Siew Sin, met with the Sultan of Brunei to negotiate conditions including:

• The number of seats in legislature and parliament
• Control of oil, gas and mineral exploration
• Production, monetary autonomy and Brunei's earlier investments
• Method of taxation
• Authority in education and welfare (sovereign wealth fund)
• Matters of religion and citizenship
• The security of Brunei, and the position of the Sultan
• The status of Brunei within the proposed new federation of Malaysia.

Brunei pulled out of the negotiations before the Malaysia Agreement was signed on 9 July 1963 and subsequently became independent from the United Kingdom on 1 January 1984.

External links

• Brunei and Malaysia: Why Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Refused to Join the Federation at Amazon.com

Further reading

• Stockwell, Anthony (2005). The Making of Malaysia: Britain, the 'Grand Design', Decolonisation and Malaysia. I B Tauris & Co Ltd. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-85043-845-8.
• Stockwell, Anthony (2004). British Document on the End of Empire: Malaysia. Vol. Series B - Volume 8 "Conflict, deadlock and agreement". London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). pp. 520, 659. ISBN 0-11-290581-1.
• Allen, J. de V.; Stockwell, Anthony J. (1980). Wright., Leigh R. (ed.). A collection of treaties and other documents affecting the states of Malaysia 1761–1963. Oceana Pubns. ISBN 978-0-379-00781-7.