{"id":519,"date":"2007-08-27T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T07:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/27\/stories-of-those-without-birth-certificates\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T07:45:13","slug":"stories-of-those-without-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/27\/stories-of-those-without-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of those without birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"
Uncertain future for those without papers<\/h5>\n
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S. Mariamma is stateless because her birth was never registered. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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KUALA LUMPUR: M. Vishnu, 7, has never seen his mother.. <\/p>\n\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Soon after his birth, she went back to Indonesia with promises of coming back with other documents to register his birth.<\/p>\n

Lilik Yulianingsih, an Indonesian who married M. Maran from Puchong in a common law marriage in 2000, has not returned \u2014 and Vishnu still does not have a birth certificate. <\/p>\n

All efforts to contact her over the years have proved futile. <\/p>\n

Her neighbours in Surabaya told Maran that she had moved.
"The officers at the National Registration Department told me that I needed the child’s mother to register him. I have looked for her and waited seven years. I’m worried about my son’s future," said the 33-year-old. <\/p>\n

Facing the same dilemma is G. Prema, 32, from Ipoh who could not register her eldest daughter’s birth four years ago as her marriage had not been registered.<\/p>\n

But it was different when her second daughter was born recently. <\/p>\n

"I took a bus to the NRD in Putrajaya. I showed them my wedding photos and explained the situation to them and managed to get a birth certificate for her," she said.<\/p>\n

However, her eldest has yet to get a birth certificate. <\/p>\n

S. Mariamma, 26, is stateless as her birth was never registered.<\/p>\n

She cannot prove that she was born here as she was sent away to work as a child.<\/p>\n

"I was seven and was studying in a Malay school when I had to stop schooling and work at our neighbours’ homes.
"As I got older, I stayed with a family and worked full-time. I soon lost contact with my family," she said.<\/p>\n

When she was 12, her employer brought her back to see her father for Deepavali.<\/p>\n

"I bought a shirt for my father and gave him RM50. That was the last time I saw him," she said. <\/p>\n

"Being a stateless person, I am always at the mercy of others. I have worked for a family who made me sleep at the entrance to their house where they put their shoes. <\/p>\n

"They walk over me and treat me like a door mat," she said, adding that her mother left them when she was young. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uncertain future for those without papers source   S. Mariamma is stateless because her birth was never registered. KUALA LUMPUR: M. Vishnu, 7, has never seen his mother.. Soon after his birth, she went back to Indonesia with promises of coming back with other documents to register his birth. Lilik Yulianingsih, an Indonesian who married […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}