RohingScan compiles Malaysian government budget allocations, detention and enforcement costs, and UNHCR statistics into a single searchable record. Every figure here is traceable to a public source.
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Total federal budget allocation to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which oversees the Immigration Department, RELA, and detention depots.
Malaysia Budget 2025Total federal budget allocation to the Ministry of Home Affairs in the 2024 federal budget.
Malaysia Budget 2024Allocation to upgrade immigration detention depots including Lenggeng, Pekan Nanas, Bekenu, Sandakan and Tawau.
Parliamentary reply / Home MinistrySpending on repatriation operations, food, and utilities management for undocumented migrants held in depots.
Home Ministry parliamentary disclosureEstimated annual government expenditure on meals alone for undocumented migrants held in immigration detention depots.
Home Ministry statementIndicative annual financial requirements for UNHCR's Malaysia operation, covering registration, protection and assistance. Figures are published per the UNHCR Global Appeal and updated through the year.
UNHCR Global Focus — MalaysiaOngoing budgetary support for the Baitul Mahabbah programme, designed to transition detained children out of standard detention depots.
Malaysia Budget 2025 / KDNItemised Malaysian government spending lines related to immigration, detention and repatriation (excluding the multi-billion ringgit ministry-wide allocation, shown separately for scale).
UNHCR registration data for refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia. Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, so these individuals have no formal legal status.
Data as of End October 2025. Source: UNHCR Malaysia — Figures at a Glance
Documented events that shape how the spending above translates into lived conditions for detained refugees.
The Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission found that violence and abuse by immigration officers contributed to a breakout of 131 detainees from the Bidor depot in February 2024.
Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC)20 detainees died in Malaysian immigration depots in the first half of 2024, all attributed to illness by the Home Ministry.
Home Ministry / parliamentary replyRefugees in Malaysia are legally considered undocumented. There is no formal domestic legal framework recognising refugee status, and resettlement remains a limited, long-term process.
UNHCR MalaysiaRohingScan is a non-commercial transparency project. It compiles figures already in the public domain. Currency conversions are not applied — amounts are shown in their original MYR or USD denomination. Where exact line items are not isolated in public records, the most authoritative available estimate is used and labelled as such.