{"id":164977,"date":"2022-05-01T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164977"},"modified":"2023-07-04T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T19:54:44","slug":"at-last-rohana-gets-her-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164977","title":{"rendered":"At last Rohana gets her citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Hakim Mahari<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, 1 May 2022: Rohana Abdullah, the 22-year-old woman who was left by her Indonesian birth mother to be cared for by a Malaysian Chinese woman, shed tears of joy while accepting the letter granting her the Malaysian citizenship status from the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin on Friday (29 April), <em>BERNAMA<\/em> reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving the letter, she returned to her seat and gave her adoptive mother Chee Hoi Lan, 83, a tight embrace before both mother and daughter left the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hamzah, while on stage to receive the letter, Rohana said she was touched by the gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On stage, she (Rohana) cried as she said she had been waiting for a long time on the decision regarding her citizenship application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She expressed her thanks to the government and I informed her that we grant citizenship to eligible individuals,\u009d Hamzah said about Rohanas reaction after receiving the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohana was one of 34 recipients aged between five and 24 who received Malaysian citizenship at the ceremony held at the Home Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article 15A of the Federal Constitution provides a special power for the Federal Government to register a person under the age of 21 as a citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue on Rohanas citizenship attracted the attention of Prime Minister, Dato&#8217; Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who had contacted her to assist with her documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohana was reportedly abandoned when she was two-month-old by her biological mother, an Indonesian citizen, and was cared for by Chee, who was a teacher at a kindergarten where she worked as a cleaner. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: BERNAMA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hakim Mahari PUTRAJAYA, 1 May 2022: Rohana Abdullah, the 22-year-old woman who was left by her Indonesian birth mother to be cared for by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,114,8,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,230,232,156],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164994,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164977\/revisions\/164994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}