{"id":3593,"date":"2009-02-24T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2009-02-24T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T09:39:33","slug":"only-malaysian-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/02\/24\/only-malaysian-father\/","title":{"rendered":"only Malaysian father&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I remember correctly, there&#8217;s no gender discrimination in the registration \/ immigration rules\/acts (need to check).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But why is it <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/98941\" target=\"_blank\">the statement below<\/a> was made?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>The Education Ministry will soon issue a circular to all schools nationwide, advising them to accept all \u2018stateless\u2019 children, even if they have no birth certificate, so long as the father is a Malaysian citizen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\">MCPX<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com\/track\/?id=cG9vYmFsYW4%3D\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>However, the advice will come with a caveat: the children must have already applied, through the Malaysian parent, to the National Registration Department (NRD) for a birth certificate, citizenship or MyKad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA birth registration certificate will be issued to the child which will state that the child is not a citizen&#8230;,\u201d deputy minister Wee Ka Siong said while on an official visit to Kota Kinabalu over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will not be a problem <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>as long as the father is a Malaysian citizen<\/strong><\/span>. The status of the mother is not important (whatever country) she is (originally) from&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Wee could not categorically confirm, despite persistent questioning by the media, whether children of non-citizen fathers and Malaysian mothers will be accepted into government schools.<\/p>\n<p>He merely said: \u201cMalaysia definitely supports the Unesco policy of \u2018education for all\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is this written down in law or just some SOP which worked it way in to the system? Aren&#8217;t we propagating equal gender rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I remember correctly, there&#8217;s no gender discrimination in the registration \/ immigration rules\/acts (need to check). But why is it the statement below was made? The Education Ministry will soon issue a circular to all schools nationwide, advising them to accept all \u2018stateless\u2019 children, even if they have no birth certificate, so long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[188,112,19],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-birth-cert","tag-discrimination","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}