This is the central section of the mural on the front of the library building in the middle of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei.
The words say: Berbahasa satu, Berbangsa satu, Bernegara satu (One language, One race, One nation).
While this is not very encouraging for efforts at preserving minority languages, it is perhaps not unusual in countries around the world, where the desire to have a common language throughout the country is widespread. For example, there is a movement to establish English as the national language of the United States, even though there does not seem to be any real threat to the dominance of English despite the fears of some people that Spanish might one day replace English; and in Indonesia, establishment of Bahasa Indonesia as the national language even though it was originally the home language of virtually nobody has been a central national policy over the past few decades.
