Jakarta.
East Nusa Tenggara’s provincial tourism agency on Friday said it had
appropriated Rp 60 billion ($5.26 million) to build a floating aluminum dock
off Komodo that would open the island to cruise ships.
“This year
we’ll build a cruise ship dock on Komodo Island,” tourism secretary Wely
Rohimone said, as quoted by state-run Antara News Agency. “We’re in the
preparation process.”
Wely said
the dock would be finished in 2015 and would be built to last for 25
years. The project, Wely said, would
come as part of a broader effort to make Komodo National Park easier to visit.
Komodo and
a handful of nearby islands, the only known habitats of the Komodo dragon, are
increasingly popular as tourism destinations but remain relatively difficult to
access.
The Komodo
dragon has been classified by the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature as a vulnerable species.
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