SUPP to assist stateless Chinese in Sarawak to acquire citizenship

suppadmin | February 6, 2017

The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) will help to determine the exact number of stateless Chinese in Sarawak to enable them acquire Malaysian citizenship.

SUPP president Senator Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said he had asked the party’s elected representatives and leaders throughout the state to assist in the process.

This, he said, will be done by getting feedback from his people to forward them to the authority for action to be taken.

Dr. Sim said some of the Stateless lives in the rural too and some have married Indonesian and Chinese citizens.

He raised the issue with Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi during a Chinese New year gathering here last Friday.

Ahmad Zahid had said that a task force would be formed under the state National Registration Department to tackle the issue. He had also said that the task force would also set up mobile units to reach out to stateless Chinese in the interior.