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d'Affaires of the Indonesian Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe accredited to Zambia Panca Hendarto has noted with concern
challenges experienced by the Indonesian tourists and businesspeople when
seeking to acquire the Zambian VISA.
Mr Hendarto said the process has been
so challenging which has made scammers take advantage of the situation to scam
business and tourists people by making them pay huge sum of money.
‘Many of our people in Indonesia have
travelled to America and European countries but when want to come to Zambia and
seeking to get the visa they go online they mostly find agents offering to
assist them and sometimes charging as much as US$ 300 and some of them turn out
to be scammers,’’ Mr Hendarto said
Speaking an interview, Mr Hendarto
noted that Visa process was also disadvantaging many people from Indonesian who
want to come and invest in different sectors such as Agriculture, energy and
other sectors.
He appealed to government through the
ministry of home affairs to improve the accessibility and give more information
on their website and other social media pages on how to obtain the Zambian
visa.
‘Zambia through the ministry of home
affairs should give more information on their website and other social media
pages on how to obtain a Zambian visa, this will be helpful to our tourists and
business who are looking to Zambia as an investment destination people who wish
to visit Zambia, ’He stated.
He said his country see a lot of progress in
Zambia particularly in the mining and agriculture sector of which Indonesia
with a population of 280 million and growing as developing middle income
country has a lot to offer for Africa especially Zambia.
Mr Hendarto said there was need for
the two countries to enhance corporation and exchange information to foster
development.
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