Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Jakarta left with 'no time' to prepare for tourism drive

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, January 18, 2008

Jakarta left with 'no time' to prepare for tourism drive

Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Jakarta was left with "very little time" to prepare for Visit Indonesia Year 2008, resulting in few events being organized in the capital to support the national tourism drive, a city official said.

"The central government informed us quite late about the campaign," city tourism agency head Yusuf Effendi Pohan said Thursday at City Hall.

However, he refused to admit the city was unprepared for the campaign, which was launched on Dec. 26, 2007.

Yusuf said his agency had already proposed its budget for 2008, in which a number of programs would be organized to support Visit Indonesia Year 2008.

He said the agency had proposed a budget of Rp 27 billion (approximately US$2.87 million) for this year, including Rp 10 billion to be spent on promotions. The figure is down 30 percent on the Rp 15 billion spent on promotions in 2007.

The city administration has proposed a Rp 20 trillion budget for this year, down 3.28 percent from its budget of Rp 20.68 trillion in 2007.

Yusuf did not reveal how much money the agency planned to spend on programs exclusively designed to help the central government meet its ambitious Visit Indonesia Year 2008 targets.

With a wide range of promotional activities being held at home and abroad in 2008, the central government is optimistic the campaign will draw 7 million foreign tourists to its shores this year. Collectively they are expected to spend $6.4 billion.

In 2006, 1.24 million foreign tourists passed through Jakarta, with some 1,235,514 visiting the country in 2005. In 1999, as a result of 1998's financial crisis and political upheaval, the number of foreign tourist arrivals in the city plummeted to 981,183.

As of October 2007, the agency had already recorded some 989,000 foreign tourist arrivals in Jakarta.

Yusuf said events in Jakarta that were expected to support the national campaign included the annual Jakarta Great Sale in June and international events such as the Java Jazz Festival in March and the JakJazz jazz festival in November.

He said several new events would also be launched in the city in 2008, including a kite festival and Jakarta Fashion Week.

However, none of the new programs are being organized by the administration.

"We can't work alone, so we expect businesses to play an active role," Yusuf said, adding that the administration contributed Rp 250 billion to the running of the Java Jazz Festival and Rp 100 million for the JakJazz jazz festival last year.

The city's official tourism website, www.jakarta-tourism.go.id, fails to mention in any detail Visit Indonesia Year 2008.

Only four events to be held this year can be found on the website: Trend Furniture 2008, the International Education Expo, Trend Property 2008 and the International Renewable Energy Conference.

Remarkably, the upcoming Java Jazz Festival, to be held from March 7-9, is not mentioned. Since its inaugural year in 2005, the event has attracted an average of 100,000 domestic and international visitors each year.

The website also gives no mention to the JakJazz jazz festival and the Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest).

In 2006, JiFFest became the largest film festival in Southeast Asia, with a collective audience of 63,000 people.

Yusuf declined to comment when asked about the website.