JAKARTA: The diaspora community is skeptical of the newly launched policy granting former Indonesian citizens and their families stay permits for an unlimited period, calling it an investment-driven scheme that does not address the country’s brain drain phenomenon.
Immigration and Corrections Minister Agus Andrianto announced the Global Citizenship of Indonesia (GCI) programme in an event in Jakarta last Wednesday, promoting it as the government’s much-awaited substitute for the dual citizenship long demanded by Indonesians abroad.
The policy offers former Indonesian citizens, foreign nationals of Indonesian descent up to the second degree, foreign
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