TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Komnas HAM RI reports that as many as 325,477 Indonesian citizens in Malaysia are potentially stateless or stateless. This is a new issue on which the government should reflect in terms of the protection of migrant workers following the 32nd day of migrant workers on Sunday, December 18, 2022.
A person without a State or stateless can be experienced by groups of people in certain circumstances. It is particularly difficult to identify the number and location of stateless persons.
Summarized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Indonesia, statelessness is often experienced by the following groups of people.
1. Chinese Indonesians who do not have documents proving Indonesian citizenship
This can happen if they do not have documents proving Indonesian citizenship because their citizenship status is incorrectly recorded in the civil registration document and they are not recognized as Chinese or Indonesian citizens.
2. Arab and Indian ethnicities who do not have documents proving Indonesian citizenship
The same is true for Indonesians of Chinese origin, if they do not have documents proving their citizenship or if their citizenship status is incorrectly recorded in civil registration documents.
3. Indonesian migrant workers who have lost their nationality
In the same case, 300,000 Indonesian citizens are threatened with losing their citizenship, which has been regulated by the Citizenship Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. abroad and the impossibility of obtaining citizenship.
4. A small number of exiled Indonesians
At the time of the political conflict in 1965, a number of Indonesians were involved in the conflict, so they were exiled and became stateless.
5. Other people classified as undocumented migrants from China who have been living in Indonesia for a long time
This group migrated to Indonesia but do not have Indonesian citizenship because they were not born in Indonesia.
These five conditions are conditions that are often found in Indonesia. With the existence of the Citizenship Act 2006 instead of the Citizenship Act 1958, it allows acquisition or acceptance of citizenship and re-acceptance of citizenship for stateless persons.
According to information received by Tempo, the coordinator of the sub-committee for the promotion of human rights of the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, Anis Hidayah, pointed out that the greater number of problems encountered by migrant workers come from Malaysia. He reminded the Indonesian government, as a sending country, to think about protecting those who are labeled as heroes of change.
“A lot of workers immigrants These are then trapped in temporary shelters. They can’t go back to Indonesia, many factories and other private sectors have to shut down, many don’t get a salary, can’t take days off because of the mobility restriction policy,” Anis said on Monday. December 19, 2022.
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