MORE workshops on keeping and managing sensitive information should be held in Brunei as a way to prevent private government records from falling into the wrong hands and posing a threat to national security.

In an interview with The Brunei Times, Shaikh Mahmud Shaikh Hj Ibrahim, course facilitator for a workshop on proper record keeping and management, stressed that more workshops on the topic should take place between government departments.

"So far, IPA has only sent lower level staff but records management and system filing should have the involvement of officers from all levels," he said.

Twenty-six participants from the Civil Service Institute (IPA) attended the workshop yesterday at the Brunei National Archives Centre.

Shaikh Mahmud pointed out that the task of keeping and managing records is more than just mere filing and sorting.

"As stipulated in the Brunei National Archives Act, records consist of documents, registers, printed material, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, microfilms, cinematograph and sound recordings of any kind," he said.

During the workshop, the participants will get to see how the National Archives Centre handles records and "demonstrate the different processes that determine the factors of whether records are kept or destroyed".

The Brunei National Archives Centre was established in order to preserve the country's national treasures. The Brunei Times