The Social Welfare Department (JKM) is looking for the next of kin of an eight-year-old Indonesian girl who has been abandoned by her mother in George Town.

North East District social welfare officer Noor Azura Ahmad said the girl’s mother, known as Eeng with passport number AK968902, had left her with a guardian soon after she was born.

"The girl was born at the Penang Hospital on July 29, 2011; it is learnt that the mother disappeared after handing her over to the guardian,” she said in a statement today.

Based on information, the girl’s mother is an Indonesian Muslim but her last address was not known.

Anyone with information on the next of kin should contact child protector Halimaton Hashim at the North East JKM Office at 04-2264531 or 04-2277412.

- Bernama