Protect Malaysia’s stateless Bumiputera children by enabling automatic citizenship if PR parent born locally, MCRA tells govt

MCRA: Govt’s plan to delete ‘PR’ in Malaysia’s citizenship laws will affect ‘red IC’ natives’ children the most, remove foundlings’ protection

MCRA said it understands the real concerns about social and institutional problems leading to cross-migration in border states, and went on to offer recommendations — which could strengthen protections for the natives or Bumiputera communities in Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia while also addressing those concerns at the same time.

The MCRA’s suggested alternative wording would be for Section 1 to be amended to be: “every person born within the Federation of whose parents one at least is at time of the birth either a citizen or a person who was born in and is permanently resident in the Federation”. In the comments, MCRA gave the example of a Sabah native or an ethnic Indian from the estates during the Malaya era who were both born in Malaysia but only has a red identification card which denotes their status to be PR, saying that its alternative wording would mean the children of such individuals should continue to have automatic Malaysia citizenship .

MCRA had yesterday said three categories of children would be negatively impacted if the government removes “permanent resident” parents from Section 1, namely children born to stateless Orang Asli and Orang Asal parents ; children born to third-generation ethnic Indians and ethnic Chinese in Peninsular Malaysia ; and children born to an adopted stateless child .

The government’s Bill today also proposed to amend Article 26 to give the government power to strip off Malaysian citizenship from a foreign wife if her marriage to her Malaysian husband is dissolved within two years of her obtaining Malaysian citizenship. enables the government to deprive Malaysian citizenship from such a woman if her marriage to her Malaysian husband is dissolved within two years of the marriage.

The government’s Bill today included long-awaited amendments — seen by MCRA and civil society as “progressive” — to finally enable Malaysian mothers to pass on their Malaysian citizenship to their overseas-born children.

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