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Tourists spending their time at Kuta beach. The garbage problem at Kuta beach which was reported by Time magazine recently has not affected the flow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, a local official said.
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Garbage on Kuta beach not deterring tourists Antara DENPASAR - The garbage problem at Kuta beach which was reported by Time magazine recently has not affected the flow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, a local official said. “Looking at the number of tourist visits to Bali which is recorded at between 5,000 and 8,000 this month, we can say there has been no decrease compared to the previous month,” said Bali Province Tourism Office chief Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu in
Denpasar. Subhiksu added that the report by Time magazine would actually not affect the number of tourist visits to Bali as long as all related institutions take action in cleaning up the garbage scattered at some locations on Kuta Beach.
Bali will remain the Island of Paradise should all the related institutions have the awareness to keep Bali clean, he said. On the possibility that garbage problems may impact on the image of Bali tourism, Subhiksu called on all elements of the government, public, the media and business circle to sit together and come to a common understanding that Bali is the primary icon of domestic and international tourism of the country. “We don’t blame the Time journalist who had written his article (on
Bali) that way because it might have been the fact when he came to see Kuta beach there was a lot of garbage at the place,” said Subhiksu. Subhiksu said there was a foreign lady who had also written about Bali who visited Kuta in July last year and reported Kuta as a clean destination because there was no garbage at the time. “Garbage usually floods into Kuta in the time of Monsoon seasons around the month of March every year,” Subhiksu said.
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JAKARTA - Malaysian and Singaporean visitors dominated tourist arrivals in Indonesia in the first two months of 2011, a minister said. “Admittedly, the two countries remain the main market for the Indonesian tourism,” Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said.
Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show 88,146 Singaporean tourists visited Indonesia in February, a 8.17 percent increase compared to the same month last year when the figure was 81,081. Meanwhile, the number of Malaysian tourists visiting Indonesia in February 2011 rose 12.54 percent to 79,462 from 70,609 in Feb-
ruary 2010. “Until February the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached 1.116 million,” he said. Compared to the same period last year, the figure represented a 9.83 percent increase, he said. About 1.016 million tourists visited Indonesia in the first two months of last year. The government has set the target of tourist arrivals
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for 2010 at 7.7 million and their spending expected to reach US$8.5 billion. Last year, the number of tourist arrivals in the country outstripped the government-set target of 7 million with their spending estimated at US$7.6 billion. Singapore and Malaysia were listed as Indonesia’s main sources of tourist arrivals last year, followed by China, Australia and Japan.