6,4 Million Tourists to Indonesia Target Possibly Surpassed

Kompas, Saturday, 12 December 2009 | 8:02 AM

YOGYAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik believed that the projected 6.4 million foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in 2009 would be reached or even surpassed. "Up to the end of last October, the number of foreign tourists to Indonesia had already reached 5.1 million, so that they may reach the projected 6.4 million by the end of this year, especially that year ends are normally a high season for foreign tourists," he said in Yogyakarta Friday.

He said in 2008 up to October, however, the number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia reached only five million, but by the end of that year the projected 6.4 million had been reached. "In 2009 up to October 5.1 million foreign tourists visited Indonesia, so that the projected 6.4 million may be surpassed," he said.

Jero Wacik said that the regions in Indonesia most frequently visited by foreign tourists are Bali, Jakarta, and Yogyakarta.

"Those to Bali have now reached 2.1 million, Jakarta 1.4 million, and Yogyakarta 300 thousand. Most Malaysian and Singapore tourists before going to Yogyakarta normally went to Bali and Jakarta first," he said.

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