{"id":2677,"date":"2008-11-15T23:27:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/15\/murugiah-on-indians-without-identification-documents\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:52:16","slug":"murugiah-on-indians-without-identification-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/15\/murugiah-on-indians-without-identification-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Murugiah on Indians without identification documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As NRD opens its counters on weekends (half-day) from mid December onwards to <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/11\/15\/nation\/2438783&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">tackle the stateless people case<\/a>, Deputy Minister Murugiah provides some insight on why there are Indians without identification documents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said that some of the Indians who came to see him did not have birth certificates because their parents had not registered their births.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, they are unable to apply for an identity card, attend school, get a job or register their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey live in perpetual fear of being nabbed and detained along with illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir predicament is the result of their parents, mostly estate workers, being illiterate, poor, ignorant or irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murugiah said most were displaced when plantations made way for development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them may have misplaced or lost their documents and cannot trace them. They have given up hope of getting replacements because of NRD\u2019s stringent procedures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, NRD director says:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>He said NRD staff members would sit down with these people and try to identify the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut unless they come to us and give us some proof of being Malaysians we cannot help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers will thoroughly investigate all cases. If they do not have any form of documents they could be foreigners trying to stay on in Malaysia or illegals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good move as groups like MIC Youth and NGOs can make use of weekends to help the community.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NRD opens its counters on weekends (half-day) from mid December onwards to tackle the stateless people case, Deputy Minister Murugiah provides some insight on why there are Indians without identification documents: He said that some of the Indians who came to see him did not have birth certificates because their parents had not registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[188,225],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-birth-cert","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}