(grammar changed to fit American English usage)
zhou tay:
[Indonesian Constitution]
Article 7
(1) A foreign woman that is married to an Indonesian citizen shall granted Indonesian nationality, within a year’s time, if at that time she announced that she willing to do so, except if she is granted Indonesian citizenship and still has another citizenship, it must not be allowed to be made public.
(2) With the exception in the paragraph one above, a foreign woman that is married to an Indonesian will be granted Indonesian [citizenship] a year after her marriage, if within a year her husband does not declare to withdraw his Indonesian nationality. Only that declaration in which the husband shall not become as having no nationality at all can be declared and make him lose his nationality.
(3) If one of the declarations mentioned in paragraph 1 or 2 has already been declared, then no others may be declared.
(4) This announcement/declaration must be pronounced before the court or other Indonesian Representative in the area where that person is living.
Article 2
(1) A foreign child below the age of 5 who has been adopted by an Indonesian shall be granted Indonesian citizenship, if the court says this is legal in the juridiction in which the adopted parents live.
(2) The legal notion by the court must be requested by the adopted parents within a year after the adoption process, or within a year after this bill took effect.
If Obama was truly adopted by Lolo Soetoro, well, the marriage system between an Indonesian man and a foreign woman will make the children of her previous marriage become Indonesian, but of course the father must make this so. And if you want to put your child in an Indonesian public school, if you’re a foreigner, you just can’t, because the Indonesian constitution forbids that.
Article 31
(1) Tiap-tiap warga negara berhak mendapat pengajaran.
(2) Pemerintah mengusahakan dan menyelenggarakan satu sistem pengajaran nasional, yang diatur dengan undang-undang.
If I translate, it becomes:
(1) Every Indonesian citizen must be educated.
(2) The Government shall establish and run one national education system, that is ruled by law.
Now here’s the key: only Indonesian citizens have the right to have an education in Indonesia. For foreigners, education must be in the International school until the university level. They must have permission from the Indonesian government. After I learned the meaning of “warga negara” in the explanation of the Indonesian constitution, it actually means, “Indonesian citizen only.”
