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Article archives: May 2008

Topic: News

The Unifinished Kutai National Park

Discussionfahmi on May 31st, 2008

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 ...

Topic: Destinations

Ujung Kulon National Park

Discussionfahmi on May 30th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: Event, News

Festival Hobby in Ceko

Discussionfahmi on May 26th, 2008

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 event.

Topic: News

VIY 2008 Is Succeed(?)

Discussionfahmi on May 25th, 2008

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% than first quarter on 2007. Based on this number, the target of VIY 2008, 7 million tourists, is predicted can be reached.

Topic: Destinations, News

“Explore Stovia Museum” by Historia

Discussionfahmi on May 17th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: News

Ayu Azhari Support Miss Tourism Contest

1 commentfahmi on May 13th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: News

Spain Gives Best Award For Indonesia

6 commentsfahmi on May 7th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: News

About Tourism in March 2008

Discussionfahmi on May 6th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: Event

Indonesia is A Winner of Sampan Race

Discussionfahmi on May 5th, 2008

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 ...

Topic: News

European Tourist Number To Bali Is Increasing

2 commentsfahmi on May 1st, 2008

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 Pebruary 2008, 33.930 tourists came and next month, March, the increment is quite significant, become 39.993 tourists.

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