PETALING JAYA: The visa-on-arrival facility will not be scrapped.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the problem of overstaying tourists was a question of enforcement and it did not warrant the facility to be reviewed.
Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad had called for the VOA to be reviewed as one in three visitors under the programme had overstayed.
“We want to make it as convenient as possible, especially for genuine tourists, investors and businessmen. The facility makes us very open and sends the right signal to the people of the world that we welcome them to visit Malaysia."
“The problem of overstaying is a question of enforcement,” Najib told reporters after the groundbreaking ceremony of Spirit Aerosystems (Europe) Limited’s (Spirit) facility in Subang here Thursday.
On the 2001 project to develop for the Royal Malaysia Armed Forces (RMAF) three Eagle Airborne Reconnaissance Vehicles (ARV), Najib said it would be halted.
“I don’t think there’s much future in the project, we are discontinuing the line. We are not producing it anymore,” he said. Najib said the international tender for new aircraft to replace the fleet of RMAF Nuri helicopters had opened on Nov 8.
Earlier in his speech, Najib said that given the strategic importance of the aerospace industry, the Government was seriously considering increasing the current list of aerospace products/activities eligible for incentives.
“The Government is looking at providing a conducive environment for aerospace industries to invest and grow in Malaysia,” he said, adding that the Spirit facility at Terminal I of the Sultan Azlan Shah Airport would lead to the further development of the Malaysian International Aerospace Centre.
The facility will initially manufacture composite aerospace wing sub-assemblies for commercial aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) Ltd is the European division of Spirit AeroSystems Inc, the world’s largest independent supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components.
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