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Indonesia's plan to offer dual citizenship to select skilled adults has drawn fire from mixed-marriage advocates, who contend that children from binational unions deserve priority under existing legal principles.
A High Court judge has ruled against a Pahang-born woman's citizenship claim, determining she cannot automatically acquire Malaysian citizenship because she failed to demonstrate her parents were lawfully married.
Malaysia's appeals court has withheld its decision in the Firdaus Wong case, which hinges on a fundamental legal question: whether private individuals can face lawsuits for violating someone else's constitutional protections.