Citizenship for Borneo's stateless: Home Ministry asks MOH, Mosti for data
PARLIAMENT | The Home Ministry has called on the Health Ministry and Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti) to share data that could help expedite citizenship for stateless Borneo natives.
This is pursuant to vaccination programmes in Sarawak, especially those that took a jab first register later approach.
"We encourage other ministries to...
PARLIAMENT | The Home Ministry has called on the Health Ministry and Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti) to share data that could help expedite citizenship for stateless Borneo natives.
This is pursuant to vaccination programmes in Sarawak, especially those that took a jab first register later approach.
"We encourage other ministries to give data, especially the Health Ministry and Mosti, for us to take the necessary steps," Deputy Home Minister Ismail Mohamed Said (above) told the Dewan Rakyat today.
He was responding to a supplementary question from Lukanisman Awang Sauni (GPS-Sibuti) during oral questions time.
Lukanisman had asked whether the government would use data gathered from Sarawak's vaccinate first, register later programme for undocumented citizens, to trace them and grant them citizenship.
“There are allegations that there are still many Orang Asal, Penan people in Sarawak and Sabah who don't have identification cards," he added.
Besides asking for data from other ministries, Ismail said that there are special committees in Sabah and Sarawak that is working on giving documents to stateless people's in Borneo.
He also said the National Registration Department does have teams that go into the interiors to register births and citizenship as part of its Menyemai Kasih Rakyat (Mekar) outreach programme.
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