Orang Asli woman’s mum never agreed to daughter’s conversion, court told
The Federal Court today heard that the biological mother of an Orang Asli woman had never consented for her daughter to be registered as a Muslim by the Pahang government.
Appearing for the 32-year-old woman from the Jakun tribe in Kuantan, lawyer A Surendra Ananth said the state religious authorities had recorded his client’s status as “professing Islam with mother” sometime in 1998.
During the material time, the woman’s mother had gone to the religious department to replace her 1995 conversion certificate which had gone missing.
“The woman’s mother said it was purely her own decision to convert to Islam (for the purpose of marrying the woman’s Muslim biological father).
“The woman’s mother had never decided for her daughter to follow in her footsteps,” Surendra said, adding that the mother…
