[1] Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah appointed Dato Hamdan as the Deputy Minister at the PMO after he announced a cabinet reshuffle on 22 October 2015.
[3] Complying with FATF Recommendation 1 requires conducting a National Risk Assessment on money laundering and terrorist financing.
As Dato Hamdan pointed out in January 2016, Brunei's first NRA intends to identify and manage these risks through a year-long project and workshops.
[5] In Manado, Indonesia, from 28 to 29 July, Dato Hamdan participated in the Sub Regional Meeting on Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Cross-Border Terrorism where he shared the country's strategies and experience in countering terrorism and discussed regional cooperation on this issue with other participating countries.
It was co-chaired by the ministers of Japan, Hachiro Okonogi, and Brunei, Dato Hamdan, to discuss the conclusions of previous meetings of high-ranking officials on transnational crime.