Articles tagged ‘mixed kids’

Campur kids gets dual nationality in Indonesia

By Nick | November 22nd, 2006 | 10 Comments »

Children of mixed parentage have been given dual nationality in Jakarta today. Indonesia’s citizenship laws are based on jus sanguinus, the idea that blood is thicker than water, as opposed to jus soli (as is used in the US) where your place of birth is used to determine nationality. The fact that so many wealthy [...]

 

Indonesian citizenship law to change

By Nick | September 21st, 2006 | 2 Comments »

In July of this year, the Indonesian government passed a change in the Citizenship Law, making life way easier for a selection of expats, kids of expats and Chinese Indonesians. Today the it was annouced, that this weekend (God they take their time over here!), a government decree will make the new law active.