Saturday, April 14, 2007

South Johor Economic Region #2: Free Access Zone being dropped?

The free access zone plan to allow foreigners from Singapore to freely enter and leave the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) has been dropped, according to Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman early April 2007.

I have no problem at all with this adjustment, and i fully understand that any systems or policies are bound to be change due to many objective factors.

However, i also believe that in reaching a long term plan as in the one like South Johor Economic Region, our policy maker should strive to achieve a long term CONSISTENCY in their decision making process and the implementation of the plannings.

Consistency will bring the foreign investor's mindset to at ease, and it will be due to consistency again which will retain the foreign investors' to jointly development our country for us in long run.

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