KUCHING: The
Sarawak state government has withdrawn its representative in the Malaysia
Tourism Promotion Board with immediate effect.
The Chief
Minister's Office, in a statement on Monday, said the state government deemed
its representation in Tourism Malaysia as unnecessary as this would be
duplicating the role and functions of the Sarawak Tourism Board.
No other
reason was stated for the withdrawal.
The state
government's moves comes after Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri
Aziz chided Sarawak Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk
Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah over the latter's remarks on the implementation of
the tourism tax.
Abdul Karim
had urged Putrajaya to defer the July 1 implementation of the tourism tax for
Sabah and Sarawak. He added that the Federal Government must respect the
Malaysia Agreement 1963 as tourism was only federalised recently.
At an event
here on Sunday, the Sarawak minister said the state cabinet would discuss the
implementation of the tourism tax in detail.
Nazri had labelled Abdul Karim as inexperienced over his
comments, while advising him not to behave "like a gangster".
-thestar online.
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