Malaysia legislation
Section 17
Section 17
(2)
No aboriginal child attending any school shall be obliged to attend any religious instruction unless the prior consent of his father or of his mother if his father is dead, or of his guardian should both parents be dead, is notified to the Director General, and is transmitted by the Director General in writing to the headmaster of the school concerned.
(3)
Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.
Aboriginal children not to be adopted, etc.