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View all search resultsEngeline's adoptive mother faces five years for illegal adoption: Minister
Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has said Margriet Megawe, the adoptive mother of Engeline, an 8-year-old girl brutally murdered in Denpasar, Bali, could face five years in prison and Rp 100 million (US$7,500) in fines for an alleged illegal adoption
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ocial Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has said Margriet Megawe, the adoptive mother of Engeline, an 8-year-old girl brutally murdered in Denpasar, Bali, could face five years in prison and Rp 100 million (US$7,500) in fines for an alleged illegal adoption.
"In Engeline's case, her adoptive parents seem not to have not followed the legal adoption procedure; thus, they could be charged under Article 79 of the 2002 Child Protection Law. However, we have entrusted all of these matters to the police," she said as quoted by Antara in Bandung on Saturday evening.
Khofifah said Engeline was adopted by a woman with Indonesian citizenship who was married to a foreign citizen. Such an adoption procedure was illegal, the minister said.
She said Indonesia's child adoption procedure had been specially designed to give adequate protection for adopted children.
"A child who is allowed to be adopted is an abandoned child [...] or a child who needs special protection," said Khofifah.
"The would-be adoptive parents must have been married for five years at a minimum. Child adoption is prohibited for same-sex parents," she went on.
"A single parent who wants to adopt a child must first obtain a permit from the Social Affairs Ministry. Adoptive parents and children must have the same religion," said the minister.
Khofifah said an adoption must be based on child protection needs rather than parents' needs; thus child adoption requirements in Indonesia were very complicated. (ebf)(++++)
