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A special task force on statelessness in Sarawak received 13,224 applications for documentation from people in the interior from July 2023 until July 2025, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.
Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, who co-chairs the task force with Sarawak premier Abang Johari Openg, said decisions had been made for 12,509 applications.
“The remaining 715 cases are still being processed and need to be resolved,” he said in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Saifuddin was responding to Ali Biju (PN-Saratok) who asked the home ministry for updates on the issuance of documents to stateless people in Sarawak’s interior.
The home minister said under the Menyemai Kasih Rakyat initiative, officers from the national registration department (JPN) travel to the nation’s rural areas to identify and help stateless people obtain documentation.
“(JPN) officers don’t wait at their offices. Instead, they go to the longhouses and look for those with no identification documents,” he said.
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