Citizenship law reforms: Minister defends 'sensitive' proposal

PARLIAMENT | The Home Ministry is expected to retain and table in the Dewan Rakyat all eight proposals to amend relevant provisions related to granting of citizenships under the Federal Constitution.

Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said this includes a proposal deemed "most sensitive" by civil society, on amended procedures to grant citizenship to stateless children and foundlings - an infant abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others...