The Home Ministry’s move to introduce a refugee tracking system and call for the shutdown of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Malaysia is putting the success of refugees’ resettlement at risk, says Klang MP Charles Santiago.

Based on the ministry’s track record in the management of migrant workers in the country, Santiago described the Home Ministry as “highly inefficient”, adding that resettlement of refugees was a very rigorous process and receiving countries must accept the system of scrutiny.