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Ministry of Home Affairs
Immigration
& National Registration
- Entry of foreigners and the duration of their
stay is regulated by the Department. Control is exercised through
visas and various passes in accordance to specific purposes. The
employment of foreign workers to meet the shortage of manpower is
permitted provided local job opportunities are not jeopardised.
- The Department issues travel documents to
citizens and permanent residents.
- It is also responsible for the registration
of nationals, births and deaths, adoption as well as issuing of
identity cards, birth, death and adoption certificates.
Fire Services
- Equipped with some of the most modern
equipments available, Brunei Fire Services operates on both land
and water to provide emergency services, namely fire-fighting and
rescue.
- In addition, the Department builds up and
maintains its operational capability and readiness, strives to
increase public awareness and promotes public safety.
Prisons
- There is only one central prison in Brunei,
the Jerudong Prison. It accommodates all categories of prisoners
ranging from those on remand and sentenced to one day's jail to
criminal serving life imprisonment and death sentences. A new
prison is under constructed in Maraburung and will be completed in
September this year.
- The Department also runs the Al-Islah Drug
Rehabilitation Centre and Al-Islah Intoxicating Substances
Rehabilitation Centre.
- It has a review system which emphasises on
humane treatment and rehabilitation or prisoners by assisting them
for their return to society as useful and law abiding citizens.
Aside from attending vocational courses, they also undergo social
and religious counselling.
Labour
- Brunei Darussalam's small population cannot
provide all the manpower needed to implement all its development
projects. As such, Labour Department continues to allow skilled as
well as unskilled foreign workers to work in Brunei, notably in
the construction and service-related sector.
- As most of the citizens are employed in the
public sector, it continues to promote and ensure more local
employments in the private sector.
District Office
- The fostering of closer links and more
effective communication between the Government and the people is
one of the key roles of the District Offices. This is done through
the medium of the Penghulu and the Ketua Kampung, thus District
Offices play traditional function of providing a channel of
communication between the Government and the.
- Brunei
/ Muara District Office
- Belait
District Office
- Tutong
District Office
- Temburong
District Office
Municipal Board
- The board is responsible for the improvement
in the living standards of the town-dewllers by providing adequate
facilities as well as enforcing rules and regulations to ensure
proper development is taking place.
- It is also responsible for creating a
conducive environment for business, commercial and economic
activities.
- Bandar
Seri Begawan Municipal Board
- Kuala
Belait / Seria Municipal
- Tutong
Municipal Board
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