{
  "id": 17883986,
  "title": "Mahkamah isytihar anak angkat lahir di Malaysia sebagai warganegara",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/mahkamah-isytihar-anak-angkat-lahir-di-malaysia-sebagai-warganegara-17883986",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/11/03/mahkamah-isytihar-anak-angkat-lahir-di-malaysia-sebagai-warganegara"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The High Court of Malaysia has ruled that a child born in the country, but whose biological parents cannot be identified, is entitled to Malaysian citizenship under the law, according to the decision of the Ipoh High Court. Justice Moses Susayan stated that the government failed to prove that the child is a citizen of another nation or that its biological mother is a permanent resident of Malaysia. The judge added that the child should not bear the consequences of false information provided by adults responsible for registering its birth. \"The child does not have a vote in the original registration process and did not commit any fraud,\" he said in his 25-page judgment. The case involved a couple who adopted the child as their own and as legal guardians for the child, after the National Registration Department (JPN) removed their names as biological parents from the original birth record. The couple initially registered the child as their biological child, but JPN later found them to be not its biological parents. The birth certificate issued subsequently stated that its parents' information was unavailable. The second petitioner (the adoptive mother) was accused of providing false information during the registration process and was fined accordingly. The couple subsequently obtained a ruling for adoption. However, JPN listed the child as a non-citizen. Susayan decided that the child is entitled to citizenship under Section 1(a) of Part II, read together with Section 19B of Part III of the Constitution Schedule, which provides for presumptive citizenship for newly born infants found abandoned. He said the provision must be interpreted broadly to protect the abandoned child and its biological parents who cannot be found. \"The child should not bear the consequences of adult mistakes and the inability to reach a conclusion,\" he said. The judge also found the child entitled to citizenship under Section 1(e) as there was no evidence that the child is a citizen of any other nation or acquired citizenship abroad within a year of birth. He rejected the government's argument that the couple was responsible for proving the child is not a citizen of any other country. The High Court instructed JPN and the government to correct the child's birth record and issue a birth certificate and MyKad that recognizes the child as a Malaysian citizen within 30 days.",
  "summary": "Mahkamah Tinggi putuskan kanak-kanak tidak sepatutnya menanggung akibat kesalahan orang dewasa dalam pendaftaran kelahiran asalnya.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}