BBM: I do not think this is true - I know the Daily Mail published this info at one point, but I did a whole bunch of reading up on this earlier in the threads and it does not seem to be the case. And it actually is not the case in most countries. Just because a person is born in a country does not mean they get citizenship to that country. The baby's citizenship actually follows the parents' citizenship(s).
An Indonesian citizen is:
- one who before the enactment of this law was already an Indonesian citizen
- a child from a legal marriage whose parents are Indonesian citizens
- a child from a legal marriage whose father is an Indonesian citizen and mother is a foreign citizen
- a child from a legal marriage whose mother is an Indonesian citizen and father is a foreign citizen
- a child from a legal marriage whose mother is an Indonesian citizen and father is stateless or whose nationality law does not give citizenship to offspring
- a child from a legal marriage born within 300 days after the father's death and the father was an Indonesian citizen at the time of death
- a child from an illegal marriage whose mother is an Indonesian citizen
- a child from an illegal marriage whose mother is a foreign citizen but the father is an Indonesian citizen and recognizes the child as his child before the child turns 18 or is married
- a child born in Indonesian territory whose parent's citizenship status is unknown
- a newly born child found in Indonesian territory as long as the father and mother are unknown
- a child born in Indonesian territory if the parents are stateless or cannot be found
- a child born outside of Indonesian territory whose parents are Indonesian citizens and, because of the law where the child was born, the child was granted another citizenship
- a child from whose father or mother was already granted Indonesian citizenship but died before taking an oath of allegiance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_nationality_law
