How Can A Person Be Called Loss Of His Nationality? This Is A Clear Explanation From The Ministry Of Law And Human Rights

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JAKARTA - The Directorate General of General Legal Administration (AHU) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkum HAM) explained that a person can be said to have lost or given up citizenship, so an application must first be submitted.

"People are declared to have lost their citizenship, so there must be an application first," said the Director of State Administration of the Directorate General of AHU Kemenkumham RI Baroto during a discussion with the theme of losing citizenship based on Law Number 12 of 2006 concerning Citizenship which was monitored in Jakarta, Tuesday, April 12, quoted from Antara.

If someone does not apply for revocation or release of citizenship status to the government, --Kemenkumham-- then no data is recorded or recorded at the Directorate General of AHU.

"So basically, if there is no application, then there is no data at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights that the person concerned has lost his citizenship or not," he said.

However, if the person concerned submits an application for waiver of citizenship, the Directorate General of AHU will process the administration to relinquish his citizenship.

After that, the Directorate General of AHU of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights will announce the status of the person concerned has lost citizenship through a ministerial decree.

On the one hand, Baroto admitted that the Ministry of Law and Human Rights could not detect cases of people who had two passports, but did not report them to the state.

In his presentation, he conveyed a number of points that resulted in Indonesian citizens (WNI) losing their citizenship, including acquiring another citizenship of their own accord.

Second, do not refuse and give up other citizenships, the President shall declare that he has lost his citizenship at his own request and the person concerned is 18 years of age and is married and lives abroad.

Then enter the service of a foreign army without permission from the President, voluntarily enter the service of a foreign country and take an oath or pledge of allegiance to another country.

Not required but participating in the election of something of a constitutional nature for a country, having a passport or letter that is a passport from a foreign country in his name and still valid.

Finally, an Indonesian citizen loses a citizen because he has been living abroad for five years continuously and not in the context of state service, without valid reasons and deliberately not expressing his desire to remain an Indonesian citizen before the five-year period ends.