Indonesia

Kutai has quite big national park, since there is 198,000 hectare area that is enrich not only by various and uniques plants but also rare animals, such as orangutan (Pongo satyrus), owa kalimantan (Hylobates muelleri), bekantan (Nasalis larvatus), kera ekor panjang (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis), beruk (M. nemestrina nemestrina), and kukang (Nyticebus coucang borneanus). But recently, the [...]

One of national park in Indonesia is Ujung Kulon. We can find more than thousand birds from 17 species. This amount of birds is quite increasing since staffs of Ujung Kulon National Park were trying so hard to save them from local citizen’s hunting. Many ways to hunting the birds, such as set a trap or [...]

Sangrina Bunda, an art group which is headed by Minang singer, Elly Kasim, was invited by government of Ceske Budejovice city to perform on Festival Hobby that was held in Ceske Budejovice, Praha, Ceko capital city. Indonesia is the only invited foreign country on that event. Titik Puspa, the living legend, was also contribute on the [...]

Jero Wacik, as Minister of Culture and Tourism, claimed that Visit Indonesia Year 2008 has been succeeded, based on tourists traffic for first quarter. The data was confirmed from Statistic Centre Biro (Biro Statistik Pusat/BPS). During first quarter, BPS recorded about 5.5 million tourists came to Indonesia. It is mean, there is increment about 15% [...]

On Tuesday night (May 20 2008), there will be an activity in Stovia building, Jl. Abdurachman Saleh No.26 Jakarta, as a part to celebrate 100 years Indonesia Awakening. This activity is planning by Komunitas Historia Indonesia (KHI), collaborate with Badan Pelestarian Pusaka Indonesia (BPPI). This participant for activity is limited, only 50 participants, since the Stovia [...]

One of Indonesia beautiful actress, Ayu Azhari, said she will support Miss Indonesia Tourism contest. She said, the reason why she want to support this event because there are many benefits, especially for Indonesia tourism industry. Indonesia has a large scale of tourism industry. Unfortunately, this industry was ignored, not only by local government but also [...]

Spanish Tourism Magazine, “Viajes y Turistico”, gave an award to Indonesia as the best destination for the future (Premio Mejor Destino Turistico de Futuro). Faustino Castilla, as director of Viajes Y Turistico magazine, gave the award on the award event best for tourism, located in Colon Madrid Hotel. The award was given based on polling from [...]

Central Statistic Biro said, there are about 502,041 tourists from abroad came to Indonesia, on March 2008, is increasing. This number is increasing more than 13.30% for the same period last year. Those tourists came from 11 main gate, such as Ngurah Rai Airport and Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Based on Biro’s data, during Feb 2008, it’s about 48.24% [...]

Malaysia was held sampan race on May 5 2008. The location for this race was Labuan beach, Malaysia. More than 40 rower took participate in this race. But, Indonesia that was representated by sampan tim from Ketapang, West Borneo, took the first place on the final. They beat other rowers. The 2nd place was Brunei and [...]

Even EU Commission hadn’t revoke the traveling ban to Indonesia (using Indonesia airways), the number of europe tourist, who come to Bali, is increasing. This data based on first quarter in 2008. From Bali Tourism Agency, European tourists number for first quarter is about 109.970 people. It means 28.9% higher than last year (85.303 tourists). During [...]