Finding Your Indo parents’ Birth Certificates in Indonesia
Hi everyone, it’s nice we have activity to be shared. I just want to inform everyone that I’m in process of asking Civil Registry Officers of Jakarta and Tegal, the city where my Oma’s father lived and the city where he was born. There is low possibility we could find informations, because Indonesian government is not the best when it’s about managing birth registries data.
Even in modern news, it’s not unusual to find many people was born without identity card, let alone the pre-1949 birth certificates and registrations.
I’m quite lucky that my opa (my oma’s husband) kept some certificates in the family archive, so I got little lead of my ancestors, but it’s most likely not happened to other people. Many losing their ancestors’ certificates and wishing to find lead of their ancestors’ origin.
Incase you haven’t got any certificates in your family archive, try to ask your other relatives, there is chance they might keep the certificates and mixed in their own certificates. We should ask anyone who could help right?
I will keep you informed about this once I got answer from the related department.