KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Malaysia does not have official records of how many stateless persons are here, so how do we know the size of this “invisible” population? One...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Malaysia does not have official records of how many stateless persons are here, so how do we know the size of this “invisible” population?
Maalini Ramalo, DHRRA’s director of social protection, said some of these individuals have yet to receive a decision from the government on their citizenship applications filed in 2016. Azis said applications for MyKAS can be made once the applicant reaches the age of 12, and that having a MyKAS allows them to stay in Malaysia for more than 12 months. The MyKAS is valid for five years and can be renewed upon expiry.
Development of Human Resources for Rural Areas told Malay Mail it has identified over 16,000 genuinely stateless persons in Peninsular Malaysia from 2016 to June 2023. — Picture by Sayuti ZainudinMaalini said the actual number of genuine cases of stateless persons in Malaysia could even be bigger, due to the limited resources that DHRRA has as an NGO to collect data.
DHRRA did not collect data on the number of persons in Orang Asli communities who became stateless , as DHRRA’s limited resources prevented the NGO from carrying out door-to-door mapping with them. Adding to the complexity is that there might also be marriages between Malaysians and undocumented migrants in Sabah, while there have also been those from east Malaysia — without Malaysian citizenship but with MyKAS for example — moving to peninsular Malaysia to work and some of them have also married Malaysian citizens there.
One of the biggest categories of persons who are still stateless in DHRRA’s database are those affected by the Law Reform Act 1976, which requires all marriages in Malaysia from March 1982 onwards to be registered with the government in order to be valid. For Malaysia-born women who are stateless due to their parents’ unregistered marriage, their own children will end up becoming stateless too, even if they are married to a Malaysian.
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