{"id":101063,"date":"2026-03-30T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/response-to-the-sun-response-to-the-sun-109-projects-overshoot-budgets-by-rm-527-mil\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:38:16","slug":"response-to-the-sun-response-to-the-sun-109-projects-overshoot-budgets-by-rm-527-mil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/response-to-the-sun-response-to-the-sun-109-projects-overshoot-budgets-by-rm-527-mil\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to The Sun (Response to The Sun (109 projects overshoot budgets by RM 527 mil)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Editor<br \/>\nSun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd<br \/>\nLevel 4, Lot 6, Jalan 51\/217<br \/>\n46050 Petaling Jaya<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir,<br \/>\nWith reference to the Sun newspaper report &#8220;109 projects overshoot budgets by RM 527 mil&#8221;, the Ministry of Tourism would like to point out that the statement &#8220;the Tourism Ministry spent RM14.7 million on Special Products Promotion Programmes despite having no allocation&#8221; is not true. This is because an allocation of RM36.5 million was approved by the Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister&#8217;s Department to undertake Special Products Promotion Programmes. In addition, the necessary approvals were obtained from the Ministry of Finance.<br \/>\nRegarding the Homestay Programme, the Ministry acknowledges the audit finding that 8 houses were not well-kept and were registered despite not fulfilling the criteria. However, with the follow-up action by the Ministry, 4 houses were deregistered while 4 houses remained in the Homestay Programme after improvements were made to meet the specified standards.<br \/>\nTaking into consideration the audit findings, the Ministry conducted a nation-wide inspection of all homestays. As a result, 458 homestay houses were deregistered due to voluntary withdrawal from the program or failure to fulfil the criteria or minimum standards.<br \/>\nAs part of efforts to enhance the Homestay Programme, a re-inspection program was initiated to ensure that all registered homestay participants comply with the guidelines and quality standards. Other measures include the implementation of a more stringent homestay registration process and the provision of continuous training for homestay operators such as Homestay Enhancement Training Program, Malaysia Welcomes the World, food hygiene, homestay marketing and promotion. With these improvements, the Homestay Programme is expected to maintain the quality standards and generate a higher level of income and employment to the rural economy.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Dato&#8217; Dr. Ong Hong Peng<br \/>\nSecretary General<br \/>\nMinistry of Tourism, Malaysia<br \/>\n28 October 2010<\/p>\n<hr class=\"tm-date-hr\" \/>\n<p><small>Kemaskini Terakhir :\u00a0<time datetime=\"1398104717\">22 April 2014<\/time><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Editor Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd Level 4, Lot 6, Jalan 51\/217 46050 Petaling Jaya Dear Sir, With reference to the Sun newspaper report &#8220;109 projects overshoot budgets by RM 527 mil&#8221;, the Ministry of Tourism would like to point out that the statement &#8220;the Tourism Ministry spent RM14.7 million on Special Products Promotion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkib-tahun-2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}