JAKARTA: Malaysian and Indonesian students will be given multiple entry visas for a two-year period, plus two years under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by both parties yesterday.
The facility will ease about 5,000 Malaysian students in Indonesia and 14,000 Indonesian students in Malaysia because they can now apply for visa for a two-year period and it is renewable every two years.
Currently, they are given visas for one year and it must be renewed every year. The MoU for student pass and visa for higher education programme was signed by Malaysia’s Second Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh and Indonesia’s Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh at the end of the Malaysia-Indonesia Annual Consultation in Istana Merdeka, Indonesian President’s Complex here today.
Met after the function, Idris said the MoU had been postponed for quite sometime after the leaders of both nations reached a consensus to implement the facility to the students of both countries in 2006.
“It will be implemented quickly,” he added.
Other than the MoU on student pass and visa for higher education programme, Malaysia and Indonesia also signed an MoU on cooperation on youth and sports.
The MoU was signed by Malaysia’s Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and Indonesia’s Roy Suryo. — Bernama