The originals plus photocopies of documents required for birth certificate application.
To apply for a sijil beranak you need to provide :
1) ICs of both parents (originals and copies)
2) Marriage Cert (originals and copies)
3) Medical Doctor endorsement on the application form.
4) And shockingly copies of the mother medical record (every page).
It makes me wonder whether this tightening up of sijil beranak application are necessary. Or even effective in solving the problem of illegal immigrants. Does the goverment look at the weight gain pattern or blood sugar level recorded over the 42 weeks of pregnancy? Do they use these medical data to determine whether this application are fraudulent or not? Where do they find space keep all these papers?
As far as I know, the reason illegal immigrants can received Mykad or Malaysian Sijil Beranak by:
1) Forging documents - they will just forge marriage cert, medical cards or whatever the government can come up with.
2) And the main reason they can do the above is because there are corrupt officers who does the issuing for a bribe.
You are probably wondering, why get so excited over some red tape? Well it maybe small matter for us urbanites.
But for the poors in remote areas(orang aslis, Indians enslaved in estate, natives of Sabah & Sarawak), how on earth are they going get their sijil beranak or ICs? Intentionally or not all this bureaucracy will put them even deeper at the mercy of BN and their cronies in civil service. Without a paper proof of citizenship, their children will continue to be marginalized and be manipulated come election time.
Will this beautiful child get the basic health care or go to school as my daughter?
Photo lifted from Sofiyah Israa
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