Stateless children: MP backs Sarawak’s call for autonomy to grant citizenship

PARLIAMENT | A Sarawak MP debating the Suhakam report today has backed calls for the state to be granted autonomy in resolving the statelessness issue, especially among children.

Roy Angau Gingkoi (GPS-Lubok Antu) said the issue, which was also recorded in Suhakam's 2020 annual report, had transcended generations of rural Sarawakians - including due to inter-marriages with the Dayaks in Kalimantan, Indonesia, across the border...