While the plight of 22-year-old Rohana Abdullah being abandoned by her Indonesian mother as a two-month-old baby and having to live as a stateless person has attracted the attention of Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin, her case is not an isolated incident.

This is according to Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching (above) who sought to impress on the prime minister and home minister that there are many similar cases and implored them to resolve the issue of stateless children.

"There are countless tragic encounters and experiences every...