Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Overseas Arrivals to Jakarta on the Rise

"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. …”

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Overseas Arrivals to Jakarta on the Rise

Jakarta Globe, Nurfika Osman, April 04, 2010

The capital’s efforts to attract more international visitors appear to be paying off with data showing a steady increase in the number of arrivals.

According to recently released data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), 127,644 visitors from abroad came to the capital in February, a 3.71 percent increase from January and a 23.59 percent increase from the year-earlier period.

About 45 percent of the international visitors came from five Asian countries — Malaysia, China, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. Malaysia topped the list with 19,881 arrivals.

“Most of them are businessmen who came here for meetings,” said Arie Budiman, the head of Jakarta’s tourism office.

“However, it does not mean that all of them are coming for business purposes, they also come here for shopping or simply to enjoy Betawi cuisine,” Arie said.

More tourists were coming to enjoy the city’s Old Town as well, he said. “We are now trying to preserve the culture in the Old Town.”

Arie said Jakarta’s tourism office was seeking an additional Rp 1 billion ($107,470) in funding from the provincial government this year to revitalize the neighborhood.

This is on top of Rp 2 billion already allocated by the provincial government to the agency to host events and cover administration costs, he said.

However, Arie said tourism attractions and facilities in Jakarta were still not good enough to compete with other Southeast Asian capitals.

“We need to work harder to promote the capital as our competitors in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok already do,” he said.

We are going to increase the number of promotions to attract tourists, at least from the Southeast Asian region,” Arie said.

More brochures would be published, online promotion would be ramped up and Jakarta would look to host more festivals, he said.