A heartbreaking social issue involves mixed Malaysian-Indonesian marriages. Malaysian law dictates that a child born to a Malaysian father and foreign (Indonesian) mother is automatically Malaysian, but if the parents aren't legally married, the child is stateless. Because many border marriages are unofficial ( nikah siri ), thousands of children grow up without education or citizenship, often with mothers forced to remove their jilbab to blend in while crossing borders illegally.
To understand the current social issues, one must first understand the historical trajectory of veiling in the Maritime Southeast Asia. video mesum malaysia melayu jilbab