Brunei: The Absolute Monarchy Built On An Oil Empire | Asia's Monarchies | Silk Road
Despite Brunei's immense wealth, financial challenges have impacted even the royal household. The Sultan has shown recent inclinations towards embracing a form of partial democracy, yet the decision to introduce it ultimately rests with him. What motivated this shift, and why was the initiative subsequently abandoned? Unraveling the complexities of Brunei's economic and political landscape, this affluent nation, built on an oil empire, grapples with both financial intricacies and the delicate balance between tradition and modernization.
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Great doc👏🏾 Thanks for uploading ❤
Thank you 🙏 hm 🙏 for looking after me so well for almost 7 years in your lovely country Brunei.i'm an African woman from guinea and brunei was the best place I ever lived.
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This is a great channel. I’m surprised you don’t have more followers. All the best. I hope you guys succeed.
Bro if I’m a monarch or dictator I’m staying in power. Fuck a democracy. Do all you can to improve the lives of people. What I never get is why these dictators/monarchs leave their people suffering when the wealth is there.
Because if the poors become richs , they will be proud , stupid , alcoholic and drug addicts and lgbt like US people , and their followers. Believe me , people here are nice people and don' t kill , don't steal . Not many crook in Brunei . Richs and powerful are naughty . powerful people destroy the planet .
They don't need anybody competing with them
Gotta pray your country has infinite oil then
@@artgrathartgrath3451 how is educating the young, employment for the adults and social welfare for the old competing with the dictators? That doesn’t make any sense🤷🏿♂️
@@khwezelihleshongwe5271 I don’t get your point. There’s countries with autocrats that don’t depend on oil or a single revenue base. China, Russia for example. There’s also countries diversifying their economies like the UAE, the Saudi’s,Qatar, Kuwait, Botswana. Why you making it set in stone that the only base of revenue will be oil? If the British managed to expand from solely depending on their colonies then what’s stopping Brunei?
It is good to watch your history & your country's, hassanal bolkiah 🌼 thank you for sharing this. And you're quite wealthy i admit.
Hope see you in Bangkok ❤
i MET SULTAN IN 1995. NICE PALACE
Stop lying
Seems both the monarch and his people are happy, system is working well, democracy will just mess things up. I need to apply for a job there
So finally at last it came to applying for a job. God Damm what the heck is this man. 😂😊😅 You won't get job there so easily either coz they itself have a huge unemployed youth looking for a job.
Song In the end please
His Majesty thank so much for sharings your life on this video, very interesting. I hope for visiting Bunei. 😍👍💝☎️❤
The royal families are corrupt lol they love to party in UK
this is a very fascinating section of history that I'm enthused to be able to learn about - however; we think that the sultan's son, wearing the dark glasses, is because his eyes are sensitive to the very bright filming lights
What about the British man? He looks uncomfortable
Not every country can adopt the western style of democracy.
Brunei is a model place to live. Whether it's monarchy or dictatorship as long as the people live in peace and harmony with the highest living standards in the world no complaints... infact I would like to be in that country 😅
This film came from real royalty.I have watched it before
This is of those people who won the lottery 1,000 times. Just born in the right place, in the right time. No talents needed.
Just born in the right place, in the right time,, 😂😅😊 Why are you not born in the right place at the time of your birth or at the right time These are God chosen people who are born with Golden Spoon in their mouth. And BTW (By the way) in whatever way you live you should thank the Almighty Allah (God). God bless you my dear.
The the sultan of brune is the best leader in the world.i lived there,i meet your hm and i paid more for my car park then I paid for my heart surgery.
he is a great muslim dictator
I go Bangkok tonight ❤
Good afternoon Sultan ❤️🇧🇳🙏😇👋
As far as I think the politics will pollute Brunei. It is good as it is.
At 13:32 time of the video Bruneian Empire didn't controlled Vietnam as shown in your video but One thing i would like to share to the best of my knowledge and belief is that Bruneian Empire in the year 1445 under the leadership of Sultan Bolkiah controlled all of the Borneo island as well as the present day Philippines island of Mindanao in the south till Luzon island in the north as well as Manila also and that time was the Golden era or Golden age of Brunei when it's Naval empire controlled Luzon island and Manila in the far north at the time of Ferdinand Magellan arrival in the March of 1521.
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As long as you don't paying taxes, free education, free healthcare and get some money from ruler, it's okey rule by absolute ruler........
The exact same is happening to you. But you are paying taxes , and don't get health care. So what are you so smug about
@@acapulcoscebu449 🤣 🤣 🤣
@@acapulcoscebu449 😂
I don't even get free education.@@acapulcoscebu449
@@acapulcoscebu449damn😂
Based
All wealth is his. Thats a sultan!
That's rich coming from British monarch
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Holy Father gave us FAITH but web technologies as well, so we can unite people like a nice global family and fight back climate change, only helping ourselves each other we can make the difference 😢😢😢
Sultan Sir Omar and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore were close friends and the latter must have shared his experience regarding joining Malaysia. The Brunei dollar is pegged to the Singapore dollar and both countries enjoy close ties at both government and people level. Singapore Armed Forces has training facilities there.
Education? Healthcare? I could use a bit more here. But when there is less division of the functions and transparency to see... You can't even trust your own brother! You see?
Que.este.monarche.es.traparenti.no.entiendo.mucho.
Quien.es.brin.more.dime.okey
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They own beverly hills hotel
How much does the gov’t of Brunei earned fron oil?
Brunei’s SWF far exceeded than overall oil earning. The country’s saving from oversea quite impressive if you learn more
Let them be, if the people are happy why are we concerned about them being an absolute monarchy, stay away from their business you're not invited
It is in best interest of the people of Brunei to keep the monarch in his power and be happy
You just know the west is salivating at the thought of toppling this
The presence of monarchies in 2024 feels rather unusual.
It’s really no different to standard politicians🤷🏿♂️. The only difference is there’s a singular face to decision making but if you’re talking about daily life for the people there’s no difference. Parliament makes decisions contrary to public opinion routinely. You think you have a say till the politicians go to Dabos, the WEF or some UN convention and start dictating laws no one asked for. The world is run by de facto monarchs. We’re just given the illusion that the power is in our hands.
Some people are just plain stupid. You’ve been arrested. Pledge allegiance and go home. Why you refusing something so basic because if you pledge allegiance to the Sultan you ho home, regroup and try attack again. What good will you achieve being in prison for 20 years when the fight needs to be fought outside? I never get these rebels. You can’t lie just to get out of the situation? Wtf is wrong with y’all?🤦🏿♂️
🇧🇳❤❤❤ BRI BRICS 👍👍👍👍👍
Looks like only yhe Brits want that democracy. The hipocracy.
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the Brunei royal family is of an Arab origin.
Yes the Arab features are so clear and distinct😂
@@r-vinth7923 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 They look more like the Mongols than Caucasians
@@d.bcooper2271no no they are of Arab origin. Good lord how can u say mongol. Dare u say mongol again!! Features are so evident that some see Arab caucasian features( even if only one ancestor somewhere in their long ancestry list was). People's perception is sharp and they can distinguish Semitic ancestry. I think we can also call them South Asian as at some point they had a hindu connection as well due to connections to majapahit. And today they look white to me due to a british connection
They trace their ancestors to Arab Lineage and Arab People for sure 10000%.
best dictator muslim ever
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This family’s wealth is all stolen from the country and the people don’t don’t even say a word😂
That's why almost everyone in Brunei is well off
And Britain
@@bilalharoon3812 Do you really believe that Bruneians who are dependent on social welfare benefits provided by the government are wealthy people? This is the consequence for people who have been denied their freedom of speech and given free education since childhood.
Poor and jealous
@@excelsior31107The education already FREE. Medical free. No tax. Cheap oil etc. and If the welfare not enough. Use the degree an find job. The royal family already done their due to people by giving knowledge and basic living security. If they cannot accept monarchy they can go elsewhere. The world's are vast.
Only this form of central power in one group with Democratic certain features are going to work, in this each group which gets to be given absolute powers to govern without any so called coalition or so called bought sold yays nays, now in new thinking these groups are given term to showwhat thy are capable of doin work for public reforms restructurings these are democratic structures, and if not proper work is done it shall be removed and another active group gets chance to show what they are made of...its nt passed from same group to other memebers, these thoughtful with intelligence passing of central powers you may say or top positions not to blood lines but capabilities come fromforming of sikhism where Gurugaddi was not given to blood lines of top main guru ' s off spring but to the one within sikhism who has showed the capabilities, iys verybclear as of todaysbDemocractic systems are corrupt and are not letting even capabilities in them not work proper. Power has to be centralized in one group for it work whatever work thy might do. And if not capable to be removed
Obviously not much money means it was skakdsgling on si called taxation and that tevenue misersscrooges way of exchange model still going when you can print and make healthy economies, and decent life for public without any ody going into stress since you have cheap economic way paperscoins way, from which i shall cut costs further of printing embossing onthem faltu waste on coins when nobody except likes of me pay attention even, all it needs to reprient your thinking which generations nowor coming are going to pay attention already written explained in my books
Ah ke bapak Melayu Bugis ah
old movie . look the cars , around 2000 after Jésus, the Christ 's birth . Tortured by jews and killed , in 33 , nearly 2000 years ago . 2033 is coming soon . Ouala !
And what do the rich say about the poor... Let them eat cake. Google.
Endias and Britains are jealous
total rubbish -
All those years to improve and still looks like a third world country. I honestly can't wait for the oil to run out.
u might not be alive by then
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The original nobody needs nothing there's nothing in the desert ,which is to say the british mad dam sure they had the first access to oil after doing the geological surveys way back in the late 1880's and then made sure they had all the main political aspects of those countries controlled through wealth via the oil till the arab states realised wait a minute its our oil we control the price and how much oil flows, which is why the USA stepped in and started the cost of a barrel of oil and how much oil is made into various products, the opium trade via the golden triangle and then the railways was the first real world magnates. Also the richest person in the world back then was a chinese person who had something like a couple of trillion dollars to spend, he controlled all the merchant routes around the world at that time and also the people who harvested all the goods which was sold all over the world. His name was Howqua, a Qing dynasty merchant who on the eve of the First Opium War (1839-42) was believed to be not just the foremost Chinese tycoon but the richest man on Earth. 👌✌👍🦘
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